Actually when speaking, my english is very good and i was even allowed to work at the irish times pub as a temporary aide when some guy quitted. That and also ginger hair
Commonly, being "understandable" is not equal to being "good". Because of slight homophonic pronounciation in "they're" and "their", you might be considered as "good" enough on conversation. My Vietnamese friend is allowed to work in Wendy's despite her English being far more difficult to understand than the spoken English of a typical outback fair dinkum Aussie bloke.
What irks me is that you Europeans have the privilege of being exempt from IELTS to enroll in Australian Uni, no matter what is your first language background. Meanwhile, I am required to go through that $200 test, and still have to go through the ordeal like correcting misspelled words, tenses, and other lingual problems in a group study paper made by German classmates.
