I was wondering if I can use "is not the best around" in conjunction with language skills, but some mild googling gave me no results for languages like German or French (in a context where I'd probably expect a native English speaker to use such a sentence construct), but on the other hand there are plenty results for "My English is not the best around" which obviously stems from non-native speakers.
This makes me assume that saying "My English isn't the best around" is probably wrong, but I'd like to know why exactly.
Best Answer
There is nothing wrong with the phrase. The reason you will only hear non-native speakers using it is because native speakers nearly always consider their English to be excellent in comparison to their peers.