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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. Compare it

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. Compare it
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The tables compare the percentage of English
students
 who are able to speak different
languages
 other than their native one in
two
 different years. It is noticeable that in both years, 2000 and 2010, the majority of British
students
 at the university were able to speak at least one foreign language. We can
also
 see that
students
 who have
second
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 and
third
 language increased over 10 years time. In the year 2000, 80% of the
students
 were able to speak at least
two
languages
, including the native one, and only 20% of all
students
 could speak just English. Later, the percentage of
students
 who were able to speak only English diminished, and the proportion of
the
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students
 who were able to at least
two
languages
 went up to 15% in 2010 from 10% in 2000.
Moreover
, those who were able to speak
two
 foreign
languages
 rose by 5, and it reached
to
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15% Looking at details, in 2000, 30% of the
students
 were able to speak Spanish, 15% spoke French, %
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 spoke German. In 2000, the proportion of
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Spanish
speakers
 went
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up
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 to 35%, there were 5% fewer French
speakers
, and the figure for German
speakers
 remained still.
Finally
, the percentage of
the
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speakers
 who speaks different
languages
, excluding French, German and Spanish rose from 15% to 20% in the given time period.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words students, languages, two, speakers with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportions
  • British students
  • university
  • speaking other languages
  • language proficiency
  • overall trends
  • comparison
  • 2000
  • 2010
  • chart
  • data
  • percentage
  • significant
  • increase
  • decrease
  • noteworthy
  • comparative analysis
  • improvement
  • decline
  • conclusion
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