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
two
pie charts compare the percentage of British
students
in a university who could communicate in different languages in
two
years, 2000 and 2010.
Overall
,
students
in
this
university who were able to speak English only accounted for the highest proportion.
Furthermore
, the percentage of British
students
who were multilingual increased after 10 years. In 2000, 30% of
students
were capable of using the mother tongue only, followed by 20% who could speak Spanish. The percentages of
students
using French or another language were equal, at 15%,
while
10% of participants could interact in French or
two
other languages. After a decade, English-speaking
students
still dominated in
this
school, with 35% of them using
this
language only, compared to a rise of 5% in the proportions of another or
two
other language speakers. French and Spanish users,
however
, occupied lower percentages in 2010, with its figure declining by 5% each. Only the percentage of German speakers stayed static over time.
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  • proportion
  • multilingualism
  • globalisation
  • immigration
  • education policy
  • career prospects
  • cultural understanding
  • distribution
  • percentage
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  • trends
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