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Dr Brigitte Halford, a professor of linguistics at Freiburg University in Germany, agrees. 'Bilinguals tend to use language better as a whole,' she says. 'They also display greater creativity and problem-solving ability, and they learn further languages more easily.' So with all of these benefits, why do we not show more enthusiasm for learning other languages?

Edit the following text: Dr Brigitte halford, a professor of linguistics at Freiburg University in German agree bilinguals tends to use language better as a whole she says. "They also display greater creativity and problem-solving ability, and they learn further languages more easily." So with all of the benefit, why do we not show more enthusiasm for learning other languages.

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Dr Brigitte Halford, a professor of linguistics at Freiburg University in Germany, agrees. "Bilinguals tend to use language better as a whole," she says. "They also display greater creativity and problem-solving ability, and they learn further languages more easily."

So with all of these benefits, why do we not show more enthusiasm for learning other languages?

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  • "halford" capitalised; commas placed around "a professor ... in Germany".
  • "German" changed to the noun "Germany".
  • "agree" changed to "agrees" (singular subject), followed by a full stop.
  • "Bilinguals tends" changed to "Bilinguals tend" (plural subject), and her words placed in quotation marks, with a comma before "she says".
  • "all of the benefit" changed to "all of these benefits".
  • Question mark added at the end of the question.

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