The following is a collection of resources meant for highly advanced learners trying to bridge the gap between themselves and native speakers in Mandarin.

Table of Contents:

Linguistics

● Collection of academic journals and related books about achieving near-native proficiency

The following is a collection of scans and PDF related to this topic from experts who have spent decades studying this and interviewing people who have achieved such a level based on the ILR scale:

File folder on MEGA

Additional books on this topic:

Books on Attaining a Near-Native Level in a Foreign Language

● Fossilization & “Nativeness” Research

Clayton, an employee of Refold, has previously shared some linguistics journal articles which call into question whether fossilization even exists, or whether “nativeness” is even a valid or useful metric.

Fossilization:

• Interlanguage
• Forty years later: Updating the Fossilization Hypothesis
• How Juries Get Hung: Problems With the Evidence for a Focus on Form in Teaching
• Fossilization: five central issues

Nativeness:

• Native/non-native dichotomy in minority language contexts