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.

The pie charts compare the percentage of academic students who can speak different languages in an

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university during two different years 2000 and 2010.

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, the most spoken foreign language in those years was Spanish, followed by those who did not know another language that was apart from

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. In the first year taken into consideration, 30% of all the admission spoke Spanish,

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just only 15% were capable of communicating a French accent.

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, 20% of freshers knew only

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only. German was the less spoken language; only 10% of the recruitment had

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ability. The same rate represented the ones who spoke two languages, other than

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. In 2010, the trend did not change drastically. More specifically, 5% more pupils spoke French and Spanish whose percentages become 35% and 15% respectively.

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, the percentage of pupils who spoke two languages halved than 2000. French has become less spoken than before, in ,fact the percentage reduced by 10%.