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. Compare it

The pie charts compare the

percentage

of

students

in Britain who were bilingual, multilingual and those who spoke

English

only at one University in England in the years 2000 and 2010.

It is clear that

Spanish was the highest learnt language among

students

.

Additionally

, more of the

students

decided to learn other languages

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English

at the end

of the ten-year period. In 2000, 30% of

students

were able to speak in Spanish and

English

and

this

proportion had increased by 5% to reach 35% in 2010.

However

, the reverse occurred for French as 15% of

students

had learnt it until 2000 and

this

percentage

dropped to 10% in 2010. Surprisingly, the

percentage

of

students

who can speak German language only

in addition

to

English

remained the same in both years at 10%. About 10% of

students

were able to speak using one other language in 2000.

This

figure doubled reaching 20% in 2010. Multilingual

students

comprised 15% in 2010

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an increase of 5%

than in

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2000. In 2000, about one-fifth of

students

were speaking in

English

only, but that

percentage

dropped to its half at 10% in 2010.