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The charts below show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak pther 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 pther 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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The charts illustrate the number of
British
students
 at a particular university in England that could speak other
languages
 apart from English between 2000 and 2010.
Overall
,
while
 the
percentage
 of
students
 who were able to speak only Spanish has risen, the
percentage
 of
British
students
 who could not speak any other
languages
 except English has fallen by half. In detail, in 2000, Spanish-speaking alone had the highest
percentage
 in the chart, which accounted for 30%. Regarding
this
,
however
, in 2010 the
percentage
 of
British
students
 who could speak only Spanish increased by 5%, going from 30% to 35%.
Next,
the
percentage
 of
British
students
 who were unable to speak any other
languages
 except English accounted for 20% which stayed the second largest
percentage
 in the 2000’s chart. But in 2010, the
percentage
 went down by 10% as in 2010 it only accounted for 10% of
British
students
.
On the other hand
, in 2000,
British
students
 who could speak only French and another unidentified language accounted for the same
percentage
, which was 15%.
Similarly
, the
percentage
 of only German-speaking and two other unidentified
languages
 accounted for only 10%, which
also
 represented the lowest of other
languages
 spoken by
British
students
 in 2000.
By contrast
, there were some changes in the
percentage
 of
students
 who spoke only French, as the
percentage
 fell down from 15% in 2000 to 10% in 2010. At the same time, the
percentage
 of
students
 who could speak two other unidentified
languages
 and another unidentified language went up by 5%, going from 10% to 15% and from 15% to 20% respectively. Meanwhile, there was no change in the
percentage
 of
students
 who only spoke German, the
percentage
 remained the same at 10% from 2000 to 2010.
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