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 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 the percentages of British
students
at a certain university in England that could speak a foreign
language
alongside English in two separate years: 2000 and 2010.
Overall
, it is clearly observable that in both years Spanish
language
accounted for the most popular
language
,
whereas
the proportion of
students
that were able to speak German or two other languages was the smallest over
this
period. In 2000, just under one-third of
students
spoke Spanish,
whereas
the second most popular
language
was French, where 15% of
students
had been speaking French. From
this
year until 2010, the percentage of those who were able to speak Spanish increased marginally to 35%,
while
the figure for those who could communicate through the French
language
saw a fall of 5%.
Furthermore
, the proportion of pupils who had been speaking another
language
grew from 15% to 20%.
By contrast
, the figure for
students
who fail to speak a foreign
language
experienced a decline of 10%.
In addition
, the percentage of other groups remained constant during
this
period.
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