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. Summarize 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.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
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The pie charts represent the percentages of British students who were able to speak a second language other than English in 2000 and 2010. From an
overall
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perspective, it is readily apparent that Spanish emerged as the predominant language spoken by students throughout the specified duration.
Conversely
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, bilingual individuals and those fluent in German constituted the minority during both timeframes. Spoken Spanish was at its highest in 2000, with 35%, and has since increased in popularity to reach 35% in the next decade.
While
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the proportion of other linguistic competencies
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English
also
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rose to 20% in 2010,
in contrast
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, the one in monolingual ability halved to 10% by the end.
In addition
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, the fall in language popularity was experienced by the French too, which accounted for the second largest at the beginning of the era with 15%, to finish at 10%. In comparison, the allocation for German and bilingual proficiency remained stable over a ten-year period, reaching the same level as French in 2010.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportions
  • multilingual
  • linguistic competence
  • significant
  • trend
  • increase/decrease
  • stable
  • popularity
  • relatively
  • decade
  • compare/contrast
  • survey
  • data
  • fluent
  • proficient
  • bilingual
  • predominant
  • minority
  • emerge
  • dwindle
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