Good question. In general, I’d say that of course coming to the field with heritage language skills helps, but as long as you’re willing to put in the time (which is considerable!) into learning Chinese, once you get to professional fluency you’ll end up on roughly the same footing.
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Good question. In general, I’d say that of course coming to the field with heritage language skills helps, but as long as you’re willing to put in the time (which is considerable!) into learning Chinese, once you get to professional fluency you’ll end up on roughly the same footing.