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 given diagrams illustrate the percentage of multiple
languages
used by British pupils aside from English
at a particular university in the UK between 2000 and 2010.
Overall
, apart from English
, Spanish was the most used language
in both given years, whereas
the proportions of usage of other languages
slightly changed over the course of ten years.
It can be observed that in 2000, the number of students who spoke only Spanish took up almost one-third. Moreover
, twenty per cent of all students were only able to speak English
whereas
other pupils could speak at least one language
other than English
, namely French (15%), German (10%), another language
(15%) and two other languages
(10%).
Ten years later, there were some changes in the figures as the proportion of the Spanish-only section went up to 35% and it still remained the highest figure of
the chart . As for pupils who spoke French or German only, their proportions took up only one-tenth respectively . Change preposition
on
In addition
, there was an increase in the figure for another language
and two other languages
as they grew by 5% each compared to the figures in 2000.Submitted by Phạm Hải Anh on
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