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.

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.
The pie charts present information about the percentages of British students speaking other languages
in addition
to
English
in 2000 and 2010. Obviously, children speaking only
English
account for the largest proportion in both 2000 and 2010.
Moreover
, for 10 years, undergraduates who speak Spanish only
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a dramatic downward trend. As the pie chart in 2000 depicts, children who just speak
English
take up the highest percentage.
On the contrary
, The smallest part belongs to
multilingual
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.
On the other hand
,
undergraduate
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undergraduates
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using German only or French only have equal percentages, at 15%. After a decade, the proportion of
English speaking
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students increase slightly to 35%
whereas
German-speaking children stabilize at 10%.
However
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French and Spanish users occupied lower percentages in 2010, with their
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figures
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declining by 5% and 10% respectively.
To sum up
,
English
still be used by the largest number of students
while
others fluctuate slightly or remain steady.
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