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A study of young children's ability to learn foreign languages found that those with parents who read them more than one book per week in their native language were 75% more proficient in the foreign languages that they learned than children whose parents read them one book per week or less. A secondary finding of the study was that children's ability to remember new vocabulary in a second language drops off sharply after the age of 6, when it becomes 75% more difficult to retain new words learned in the second language.

Assuming the statements above are true, which of the following can be inferred from them?

【选项】Proficient speakers of a second language are likely to have begun learning it before the age of 6.