the charts below show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in additon to English, in 2000 and 2010.
The graphs indicate the statistics of language proficiency of British scholars from a university in England within two years, 2000 and 2010.
Overall
, it is explicit that it was Spanish
that had the most popularity among the students in both years; moreover
, the data of bilingual ones increased in 2010.
Regarding the details of 2000, what stands out from the scheme is that a noticeable proportion, 20 per cent, were speaking only English, while
the others were able to speak at least two languages. Additionally
, Spanish
ranked first; in more detail, almost one-third of students were able to speak Spanish
. Furthermore
, French and German were in the second and third places, 15% and 10% respectively.
Focusing on the information from 2010, it can be seen that the figures for monolingual people have shrunk to reach only 10%; conversely
, the facts for bilinguals have boosted to a peak of 15%. What is more, Spanish
has been more demanding, 35 per cent. Also
, the percentage of folks who were interested in French has followed a downward trend.Submitted by n97.mortazian on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words spanish with synonyms.
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