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The charts 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

The charts 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
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The pie charts compare the percentages of British
students
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 at the particular university who spoke different languages
in addition
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 to English, in two separate
years
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. It is clearly seen that in both
years
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, the majority of British
students
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 studying at the university were able to speak at least one foreign
language
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.
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, it is noticeable that amount of
second
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 and
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third
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third-language
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language
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 speakers increased over the
10 year
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10-year
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 period.
To begin
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 with, in the year 2000, 80% of the
students
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 were able to speak one or more foreign languages, and 20% only spoke English. After ten
years
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, there was a rise of 5% in the proportion
those
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of those
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 who spoke
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second
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a second
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 foreign
language
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. There was
also
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 an increase from 10% to 15%, in the proportion who were capable to speak two other languages. Looking at the specific
second
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language
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 spoken, in the year 2000, 30% of the
students
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 could speak Spanish, 15% spoke French, and 10% spoke German. Ten
years
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 later, the proportion of Spanish speakers grew to 35%, there were 5%
less
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fewer
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 French speakers, and those who spoke German remained stable.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "second".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words students, years, language with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" 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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