I remember one time that I overcame a significant technological challenge is that I learned how to input Chinese characters because I once learned how to input Chinese characters while I was in primary school but since then I forgot how to input them and there isn’t a necessity to input Chinese characters until I went to the university where I need to write a lot of essays and sometimes in Chinese and I think to myself what if I don’t know how to type in Chinese, then I’ll have to write every single word by my hand or I have to speak to the computer and I don’t want to do either of them. That’s why I learned how to input Chinese characters again. And I started by following one single article that I found on Line. This is an argumentation piece, an argumentation essay in a news company. I watched that article and with the other hand I had the guidance of how to input Chinese characters. I followed the essay and typed the characters one by one. At the end, with several weeks of effort, I finally learned how to improve Chinese. And I felt a sense of reward and a sense of achievement as well. And from then on, I know that I can do all things with effort.
Band 7+: Describe a time you overcame a significant technological challenge. You should say: - What the challenge was - What steps you took to address it - Who helped you (if anyone) And explain what you learned from this experience.
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I remember a time when I overcame a significant technological challenge: learning how to input Chinese characters. I had learned how to input them while I was in primary school, but since then, I had forgotten how to do it. There wasn't a necessity to input Chinese characters until I went to university, where I needed to write a lot of essays, sometimes in Chinese. I thought to myself, what if I don't know how to type in Chinese? Then I would have to write every single word by hand or speak to the computer, and I didn't want to do either of those. That's why I decided to learn how to input Chinese characters again. I started by following a single article that I found online. It was an argumentative piece from a news company. I read that article while using guidance on how to input Chinese characters. I followed the essay and typed the characters one by one. After several weeks of effort, I finally learned how to input Chinese. I felt a sense of reward and achievement as well. From then on, I knew that I could accomplish anything with effort.
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