Most highly fluent 2nd-language speakers I've encountered on YouTube seem to have near-native Mandarin. Many of them also achieve this level of high fluency in 10 years, or at least have stayed in China for 10+ years. And that's from nothing.
Now, look at the first-language learner.
Birth = babies don't talk at all.
1 year old = early bloomers may begin talking, late bloomers may delay speech
2-6 years old = making simple sentences
7-18 years old = making more and more complex sentences
It actually takes much shorter time to learn Mandarin as a second language than as a first language. In the first 5 years of development, the first-language speaker is practically illiterate. Even if the first-language speaker has to memorize ancient poetry, he/she may not even understand it. See? That actually makes second-language learners more diligent than first-language learners. Think for a moment. In 10 years, a second-language learner achieves a level of fluency to communicate difficult, abstract concepts. In 10 years, a first-language learner, well, talks like a 10-year-old child. Apparently, the only advantage that first-language learners have is tone perception. They begin speaking with tones from the start, while for many second-language learners (most languages are not tonal), they have to deal with tones. However, this is not really so much an advantage. It's more of a crutch when trying to learn non-tonal languages, as the intonation of the non-tonal language becomes unpredictable for the tonal speaker.
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