Something I've been thinking about is how much of a difference is between someone who is HSK6 and a native speaker, and how much more work does one need to put in to get to native fluency?
Personal context: I'm an overseas Chinese that has sucked at Chinese all my life (English is my "mother tongue"), spent some time working in Taiwan, did HSK6 a while back on a whim and did averagish (~250 I think).
However, to this day, my Chinese sucks, probably at the level of an elementary/middle school student in Taiwan* - reading Chinese newspapers remains slow and laboured compared to English newspapers, the only poem I actively remember is 静夜思, and my grammar sucks because I never learned Chinese grammar**.
Has anyone actually gotten from HSK6 to native fluency, and what was the process? What is native fluency any way?
*To be fair, the Chinese standard is Taiwan is higher than China due to the lack of the Cultural Revolution, but according to my friends, they were reading 金庸小說 while in Elementary school. Which is kinda crazy to me actually.
*Interestingly, my wife, who is native, also never learned Chinese grammar - she can only tell me what sounds better, but not why it sounds better.
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