This happens to alot of people.
Best thing to do is.
Bring down the console and type marvin or for some people bmarvinb (press enter of course)
Then goto
http://www.worldofgothic.de/gothic3/...o=faehigkeiten
Yes its in German, but the the codes are for the english version also. So copy and paste an item or person from the list on the left.
then in the console type Give followed by a space and press ctrl+v
For some machines the _ isnt the key you use on your keyboard sometimes the ?, but its much easier to copy and paste