The charts below show the proportion 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.

The charts below show the proportion 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.
The pie charts illustrate how many British
students
in a particular college in the UK knew a tongue, different from their native, in the years 2000 and 2010.
Overall
, it can be seen that more pupils were fluent in a foreign language in 2010 than in the year 2000,
moreover
, the number of
students
who spoke two other tongues had
also
increased. The majority of them were speaking Spanish or unlisted speech, followed by French and German. At the beginning of the 21st century, 20% of the
students
in
this
college didn't speak any other tongue, aside from their mothers. After a decade
this
percentage dropped to only 10%.
In contrast
, more undergraduates were fluent in more than one foreign language with a rise from 10% to 15% in 2000 and 2010, respectively. Spanish was the most popular different speech, with 30% of the collegians speaking it in 2000 and 35% in 2010. Unlisted tongues were known by between 15% and 20% in both years,
while
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in German and French was listed in 10% to 15% of the
students
over
this
ten-year period.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • additional languages
  • proficiency
  • decade
  • trends in language learning
  • globalization
  • cultural shifts
  • inferred
  • shifted
  • popularity
  • decrease/increase in speakers
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