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.

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pie charts compare the percentage of British

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in a university who could communicate in different languages in

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years, 2000 and 2010.

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university who were able to speak English only accounted for the highest proportion.

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, the percentage of British

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who were multilingual increased after 10 years. In 2000, 30% of

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were capable of using the mother tongue only, followed by 20% who could speak Spanish. The percentages of

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using French or another language were equal, at 15%,

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10% of participants could interact in French or

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other languages. After a decade, English-speaking

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still dominated in

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school, with 35% of them using

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language only, compared to a rise of 5% in the proportions of another or

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other language speakers. French and Spanish users,

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, occupied lower percentages in 2010, with its figure declining by 5% each. Only the percentage of German speakers stayed static over time.