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Children who start later often have an easier time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most studies show that the ones that end up with the most gain in language acquisition are those who started in secondary school with very good teachers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>She laments the prevalent \u201cthe earlier the better\u201d myth, which resulted in annual global spending of 11.35 billion USD (in 2021) on foreign language education. This money, she argued could be spent better elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quay presented the results of her survey of some 200 trilinguals she recruited through her personal contacts. 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