Band 6: Describe a time when you had to learn something difficult. You should say: what you had to learn, why you needed to learn it, what made it difficult, and explain how you eventually managed to learn it. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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When I got a new project on freelance, I had to learn numerous skills that I hadn't learned previously. It was quite hard for me because it was a completely new experience. I can say even I was inexperienced because there were a lot of technologies that I hadn't worked with before. The thing is that if I hadn't taken this project, I think I wouldn't have experienced how to deal with new unexpected circumstances. Because it happened completely out of the blue. I didn't expect this project and I started doing it a little bit late. I needed to learn a new programming language. It was PHP. I had only seen a few lines of code before I started this project, and I had to watch a lot of videos and explore how to deal with this programming language and how to write code in it. The thing that made it really difficult was that I wrote this project for my girlfriend's grandmother, and I didn't want to fail there. It was a crucial point for me because if I had failed this project, I wouldn't have gotten a recommendation from this company. I managed it quite successfully because then I received a really good and honest recommendation, and I was glad to see this recommendation. Yes.

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When I got a new project on freelance, I had to learn numerous skills that I hadn’t learned previously. It was quite hard for me because it was a completely new experience for me. I can say even I and I open in experience because there were a lot of technologies that I hadn’t worked with previously. The thing is that if I hadn’t taken this project, I think I wouldn’t have experienced how to deal with new unexpected circumstances. Because it happened completely out of the blue. I didn’t expect this project and I started doing this project a little bit lately. I needed to learn a new programming language. It was PHP. I saw only a few rows of code before I started this project and I had to watch a lot of videos and explore how to deal with this programming language and how to write a code there. The thing that made it really difficult that I wrote this project for my girlfriend’s grandmother and I didn’t want to fail there. It was a crucial point for me because if I had failed this project, I wouldn’t have gotten a recommendation from this company. I managed it quite successful because then I received a really good and honest recommendation and I was glad to see this recommendation. Yes.

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