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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

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.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.
The two pie charts illustrate that six language groups made up the whole British
students
of a university in England who spoke
languages
other than
English
in 2000 and 2010. In 2000, there were 20% of the
students
merely spoke
English
. The percentage of people who spoke two
languages
, including French, German, Spanish, or another language, was 70%.
Students
who were able to speak three
languages
were the minority (10%). In 2010, British
students
who only spoke
English
dropped considerably from 20% to 10%
while
students
who spoke two and three
languages
both increased by a total of 5%. When it comes to the details,
students
who spoke French and Spanish
in addition
to
English
both went up by 5%
whereas
those who spoke German maintained the same percentage.
Overall
, the language ability of British
students
at one university improved from 2000 to 2010. It is worth noticing that monolingual
students
declined to half of the old figure
while
the percentage of bilingual and trilingual
students
both went up.
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Vocabulary: The word "went up" was used 2 times.

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  • proportions
  • multilingual
  • linguistic competence
  • significant
  • trend
  • increase/decrease
  • stable
  • popularity
  • relatively
  • decade
  • compare/contrast
  • survey
  • data
  • fluent
  • proficient
  • bilingual
  • predominant
  • minority
  • emerge
  • dwindle
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