The charts below show the proportion of British students at one university in the 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 much of British

students

are able to speak another language except English in a specific university in England in two different years 2000 and 2010.

Overall

, most

students

could speak one of these languages namely, French, German, and Spanish in both years.

However

, just a small proportion of

students

didn’t know any other languages. In 2000, one-third of

students

could speak Spanish. After a decade, in 2010,

this

number rose by 5% and reached 35%.

However

, in that period the proportion of

students

who were able to speak French fell about 5%, from 15% in 2000 and 10% in 2010. The number of

students

who knew

German

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language

in addition

to English remained at that period, 10%. The number of British

students

who were able to speak another language

except

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French, German, and Spanish increased by just 5% from 2000 to 2010, 15% and 20% respectively.

This

pattern

also

happened for

students

who knew two other languages, 10% to 15%. in 2000, 20% of

students

just could speak English,

while

this

proportion decreased sharply to 10%.