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 two pie charts illustrate the proportions of British
students
who studied in England and owned other international
language
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languages
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except
English
, in 2000 and 2010. Looking from an
overall
perspective, the pie chart is divided into six categories, where in 2000
students
mostly spoke only
English
or
Spanish
in addition
to it, as happened in 2010, with the exception that
another
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language
speakers outnumbered the
Spanish
speakers. In 2000, the vast majority of British
students
mostly spoke only
English
(30 %) and
one fifth
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spoke
Spanish
as well. The percentage of
students
who spoke only French or who knew another
language
was 15% for both groups. The German and two other languages spoken
students
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percentage made up
one tenth
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for
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both categories. In 2010,
Spanish
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the Spanish
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, French and German
language
users portion made
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tiny minority out of all British
students
, each group took 10% of all
students
. A modest 15% and 20% of
students
spoke two other languages and French, respectively. A massive 35% of
students
did not speak any other
language
except
English
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words students, language, english, spanish with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.

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