The pie chart shows the number of people who were using different languages online. The table shows the average number of people online each year. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Represented figures reflect shares of people learning foreign languages online in December 2001. Among them, the most popular are English, Japanese, Chinese, German, etc. The table exhibits these statistics in terms of the percentage of the world population in different periods of time being online,

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as 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. First of all, speaking of the pie chart, we can make a conclusion that the most common one for learning online is English, which takes about half, 43%,

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others have approximately similar shares as each other.

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, Japanese - 8,9%, Chinese - 8,8%, German - 6,8%, Spanish - 6,5%, Korean - 4,6%, Italian - 3,8%. Others take neat to 1-3% only.

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, we have another part of the evidence which displays the whole data without dividing it into groups as the previous one.

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, with the population growth the share of people learning them increased as well, from 1,8% in November 1997 to 8,4% in August 2001.

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, the first source of information in comparison to the second tells us that almost all people online use the Internet for learning languages.