The charts below show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in addition to English, in 2000 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The charts below show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in addition to English, in 2000 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.
The given pie charts represent the number of British
student
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students
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percentagewise who are capable of speaking other languages rather than their native
language
in a particular university, in
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the year
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year
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years
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2000 and 2010.
Overall
, it can be observed in
both
years
that
Spanish
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the Spanish
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language
was the
second
most popular after English with the highest figure among
student
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students
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.
In contrast
, German was the least
language
used in
both
years
. In 2000,
Spanish
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the Spanish
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language
was famous among
student
with
one
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one-third
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third
of the figures
while
German and
two
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the two
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other languages
was
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were
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identical with 10% each.
Similarly
, French and another
language
were
both
equal with 15%. After 10
years
, Spanish was yet the top
language
and gained a slight increase of 5% reaching 35%. Meanwhile, the figure for German didn’t change and stood at 10. Comparing
both
years
,
both
another
language
and two other
language
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languages
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experienced
a
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growth
by
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5% reaching 20% and 15% respectively. As for the
Student
who
speak
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speaks
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only English, the percentage fall from 20% in 2000 to half of that by the end of the period.
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