Band 6: Describe a skill you learned relatively late in life. You should say: - What the skill was - How you learned it - How long it took you to learn it And explain why you wanted to learn this skill. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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So one of the most essential skills that I've learned relatively late in my life is perseverance, because perseverance is quite essential nowadays. Everyone wants to achieve and attain their goals and purposes, but I wasn't that type of person. I just wanted to relax and chill. However, after some time, I realized that I had to change my mindset and learn something useful, like this skill. I decided to learn perseverance, and it was quite difficult for me because, at that time, I was the type of person who, as I said before, wanted to relax and not do anything. I learned this skill thanks to my brother and my mom. They helped me train my mind and pushed me to do things that I didn't really like, like studying and physical training. After these training sessions and lessons with my family, I have learned it. Right now, I can use persistence and have become a more persevering person. I can be a hard-working person, and I really appreciate my family's efforts. In the future, I think this will help me a lot.

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So one of the most essential skills that I’ve known relatively late in my whole life, I think, is Preserverance, because Preserverance is quite essential thing nowadays because every people wants to achieve and attain their goals and maybe purposes and other stuff but I wasn’t such type of person and I just want to relax and just chilling but after some time I realized that I had to change my mind and learn something use like the skill so I decided to learn perseverance and it was quite difficult for me because at that time I was the type of person that as I said before won’t relax and do not do something and I learned the skill thanks to my brother and my mom they helped me to to train to to train my mind and just give me the things that I don’t really like like studying maybe physical physical trainings and after this after this trainings and lessons with my family. I have loaned it. Right now I can use persistence and become a more preserver person and just can be a hard-working person and I really appreciate my and I really appreciate my family’s work and in the future I think it will help me a lot.

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