Question

Describe a skill that is difficult for you to learn

Answer 1

So when it comes to this topic, which is about a tricky skill that I really want to learn, the first thing that immediately pops up in my mind at the present is the cooking skill. It sounds embarrassing that I am a clumsy person, so cooking is like a horrible nightmare that I never want to confront one more time. I still remember vividly this one time I cut myself when doing cooking, and from that moment, I have never cooked again. 

But I cannot shy away from it forever, and I have to learn this, you know, I have to grow and live on my own and have my beloved family in the future. So, I decided to ask my mom to teach me how to cook like her a couple of weeks ago. I expected I could be successful the first time with lots of delicious dishes, but it was totally a culinary disaster. The soup was too salty, the rice was not done enough, and the chicken was too sweet. I guess it would be because of my mistake of choosing the wrong flavour.

But after a long time, I actually did it again, just yesterday actually. Since the test was so stressful, so I needed to do something to rewind and recharge my battery, so I asked my mom to let me do it all by myself. Maybe because I was too exhausted, I became calmer and did it really slowly but carefully. My family members did not complain about the taste anymore, but they gave me lots of compliments. So I can call myself that I actually came back with a vengeance, right?

So yeah, maybe my skill is not completed 100%, but I hope that I will become more skilful than my mom and can cook without hesitation anymore.

 

Answer 2

Learning a new skill is never really easy. But, it can be even more difficult if you are trying to do it on your own, just as it was when I tried to learn to ride a bicycle for the first time about 20 years ago from now.

 

Back then, I was still studying in elementary school. But, for some reason, I just didn’t think that riding a bicycle was a “thing” for me. I guess, my height (well, I was a bit shorter back then for my age, compared to the height of other children) probably had something to do with it. 

 

But, things changed soon when I found one of my cousins, studying in the same class with me, had learned to ride a bicycle while also ridiculing me for my inability to do the same at the same time. And it was at that time that I became really adamant about learning to ride a bicycle by hook or by hook, no matter how long it had taken me. In other words, it was the “sheer competitiveness” of my mind that had encouraged me to learn that skill.

 

So, fast forward, I asked my parents to buy me a bicycle that would be easy to ride. Initially, I tried to learn the new skill on my own, but I failed, miserably, to say the least, and also felt very embarrassed. Later on, my father and uncle had helped me for a good few weeks, and only then was I able to learn how to ride a bicycle.

 

So, in the end, even though, it was a success for me, it didn’t come easy, primarily because I was a bit too short to reach the paddle of my bicycle. Besides, I couldn’t initially give all to learning that new skill, also because I was afraid that I would injure myself somehow in the process. Finally, it was difficult also because I struggled to maintain a good body balance while trying to sit firmly on the seat of that bicycle.