I have hit a snag in my studies. I really don't know what to study next...
My teacher and I were talking about this today and neither one of us really knows. For reference, I have studied the following text books:
New Practical Chinese Reader 1-4
Short Term Spoken Chinese 2nd edition 1-5
Short Term Spoken Chinese 1st Edition 6 (They haven't published the second edition yet.)
汉语精读课本1年纪下册 (obscure one, in essence an essay book with fairly genuine essays)
Since I have a private tutor, we are in control of my study materials. The Last text book series mentioned goes quite a long ways in terms of skill levels so I can always just keep studying them if we come up with nothing else. I don't particularly want to start just grinding HSK books. I have noticed on this site some people with rather impressive Mandarin skills. My questions are, when you reached that situation, what did you study and do you have any suggestions?