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

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of

students

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in Britain who were bilingual, multilingual and those who spoke

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

It is clear that

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Spanish was the highest learnt language among

students

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.

Additionally

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, more of the

students

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decided to learn other languages

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at the end

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

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were able to speak in Spanish and

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and

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

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, the reverse occurred for French as 15% of

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had learnt it until 2000 and

this

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percentage

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dropped to 10% in 2010. Surprisingly, the

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of

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who can speak German language only

in addition

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to

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

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were able to speak using one other language in 2000.

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figure doubled reaching 20% in 2010. Multilingual

students

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comprised 15% in 2010

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an increase of 5%

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from

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2000. In 2000, about one-fifth of

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were speaking in

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only, but that

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dropped to its half at 10% in 2010.