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
The pie charts illustrate the percentage of British
students
speaking other languages than English
in the frame of 2000 and 2010.
Overall
, from the graphs
it can be understood that from 2000 to 2010 the percentage of British Add a comma
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students
able to speak Spanish, one or two languages in addition
to English
increased, while
there were less
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fewer
students
speaking French or not able to speak other language
than Change the wording
another language
other languages
English
.
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detail
students
knowing Spanish made up the majority of all students
both in 2000 and 2010, with an increase by
5% (from 30% to 35%). Change preposition
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Moreover
, the portion of students
learning one or two more languages rose slightly in that university (from 10% to 15% and from 15% to 20% accordingly
).
By contrast
, the percentage of British students
able to speak French decreased by 5%. Also
, the number of students
that were not able to speak any other language than English
dropped as well. It is interesting to notice that the ratio of students
speaking German remained the same, with
10%.Change preposition
at
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