The charts below show the proportion 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 proportion 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 illustrate the percentages of English pupils in a college in the United Kingdom who know foreign
languages
over a period of ten years.
Overall
, the percentage of speaking a second
language
in a college increased throughout the given time in the question.
Moreover
, Spanish was the most spoken
language
among university students in both years.
According to
the first diagram, in 2000, Spanish had the highest percentage which was 30%,
while
German and two other
languages
were the least spoken by young adults.(both were 10%) French and another
language
share the same proportion, and together they comprise %30 of all speakers. In 2010, French and German together were spoken by %20 of the university population and the same amount of people spoke these
languages
. Spanish speakers and students who speak another
language
increased in ten years to reach 35% and 20% respectively. In comparison, French speakers and people who do not speak any second
languages
decreased by 5% and 10%,
while
teenagers who know German remained stable.
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