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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts illustrate how many pupils had the ability to use different languages

besides

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English at a university in Britain in the years 2000 and 2010.

It is clear that

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there was an upward tendency in the number of students being able to speak one English and up to 2 other languages,

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the opposite was true for the left features.

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, those who could just use their mother tongue took up the largest percentage. As can be seen, in 2000, the portion of learners speaking simply English was recorded to be at the top of the list with 30% and rose to 35% in 2010.

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, those speaking one or two languages stood at 10% and 15% respectively at

first,

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they witnessed an increase of 5% over the next 10 years.

By contrast

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, individuals with French only decreased from 15% in 2000 to 10% in the

last

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year.

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, the sum of communicators with only Spanish in 2000 was 20%, yet dropped to 10% within a decade.

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, the total of people interacting with each other entirely in German remained unchanged at 10% throughout the years.