Band 5: Describe a skill you learned recently that you found challenging. You should say: - What the skill was - Why you wanted to learn it - What made it difficult And explain how you overcame the challenges. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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So, before I mastered this skill, I think cooking is the most difficult skill, in my opinion. And why do I think that? Because cooking was a challenging skill for me at that moment. I can cook, but I didn't know about recipes, and I also didn't know how to turn on the gas, things like that. I wanted to learn it because I wanted to eat, you know, and I was hungry. Cooking was a necessary skill for my life. At first, cooking was difficult for me since childhood because my mum always cooked. My mum did the cooking, not me. This made the skill very difficult to learn.

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So, before I mastered this skill, I think cook is more… is the most difficult skill, in my opinion it was. And why I think? Because cooking for me, it’s a challenging skill for me for that moment. I can cook, I can’t, I don’t know about recipes and also I don’t know how to turn to the gas, something like this and why I wanted to learn it because I want to eat you know and I was thirsty I was hungry and cooking is was a needed skill for my life. At the first time cooked for me the difficult since I’m the childhood because always in my When I was a child my mum was cooked. My mum was cooked, not me. And this is so very… this is made… this skill very difficult.

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