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 2000and 2010.

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of students who come from England and

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the capability to speak more than one language at a university in England over a decade.

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, the

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of students who could speak Spanish and another language over

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period was the highest.

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, there was no change in the

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of individuals who could speak German

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university. In 2000, a great

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of learners were able to speak Spanish at 30%, another language at 15%, and two other languages

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English at 10%, the proportion of all these three groups

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by 5% in 2010. What stands out is the

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of individuals who can speak German only remained steady at 10%. It can be seen that two groups of these students who could speak French alone and who could not speak any other languages except English, declined from 15 and 20 respectively to 10.