A time you helped someone

Alright let me tell you about the time that I helped my girlfriend learn IELTS.
So this happened about a couple of months ago when she was about to retake her IELTS
test after an unsucessful attempt earlier. She failed at speaking (only 6.5), so she asked
me to communicate in English for a week prior to her exam to practice. I thought it was
silly at first, but went along anyway.
I struggled a lot during our first conversations as talking in another language makes me
feel distant, even though I’m an English teacher. How ironic! Finally, I came to my senses
and decided to treat her as one of my students. Things started to get better and I was
able to detect her biggest issue in speaking: her fluency. Similar to other Vietnamese
English teachers, she focuses too much on perfecting her speech: adding “big” words
and avoiding grammatical mistakes, which eventually leads to a loss of fluency. I gave
her few tips, one of which was to stop worrying about speaking the first things off
the top of her head because speaking is a test of your communication skills, not your
vocabulary bank. Forturnately, she began to speak more fluently and achieved 8.5 in her
speaking test.
I feel pretty proud of myself as a teacher and also pretty happy for my girlfriend as she
was able to speak her mind and got the score she deserved !