Band 7: Describe a time when you learned something new. You should say: What you learned When and where you learned it How you felt while learning it And explain why this experience was memorable. (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I remember learning to swim, and that moment is really important to me. First of all, I want to mention that swimming is a common and basic skill that everybody needs to know. When I was a child, my family traveled a lot. We visited many countries and also traveled within our own country, and we loved to swim; we loved being in the sea. However, when I was a little kid, I had a fear of water, and when my father took me into the water, I cried. I felt embarrassed, and I really thought I was a bad kid who didn't know how to swim. When I was nine, my father enrolled me in a swimming class, and in about one month, I learned how to swim. But that is not the end of the story. In the class, it was not only about learning to swim; it was also an Olympic training place where we learned swimming techniques in general. We started to learn not only how to swim but also investigated different types of swimming. We swam about two or three kilometers per day when I was a kid. I not only learned how to swim, but I also gained a good physique, which brings me many benefits today. Many of my favorite moments come from winning against my peers in swimming, all because of those moments when I tried my best to learn how to swim.

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I remember how I was learning to swim and that moment is really important to me. First of all I want to mention that swimming is a common and basic skill that everybody needs to know. And when I was a child my family were traveling lots. We were visiting lots of countries and we also were traveling inside our country and we loved to swim, we loved being in a sea. But when I was a little kid I had some fear of water and when my father took me into the water I was crying. I felt myself embarrassing and I really was a bad kid that doesn’t know how to swim. And when I was nine my father enrolled me into the swimming section and in about one month I learned how to swim. But it is not the end of the story. In a section it is not only how you learn to swim. It is also some Olympic place where you learn how to swim in general. And we started to learn not only how to swim and also we were investigating types of swimming. And we were swimming about two or three kilometers per day when I was a kid. And really I not only learned how to swim I also gained a good physique and nowadays it brings me lots of benefits. And most of my lovely moments that I win lots of my peers in swimming and all because of that moments that I try my best to learn how to swim.

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