The graph below shows information about the languages that 13-year-old students in one school chose to study. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The figure below illustrates which languages have been chosen to

study

in one school since 2000 to the present by 13-year-old

students

.

overall

,

while

the

number

of

students

who were interested in learning French was dramatically going down from 2000 to 2005, the figure for the

students

who chose to

study

Mandarin

sharply increased during the same period. It can be seen from the graph that the

number

of

students

choosing to

study

French experienced a peak at 150 in 2000 and fluctuated between 90 to 100 from 2005 to the present.

However

, the rate of

students

who preferred to

study

Mandarin

climbed enormously to a peak of circa 75 from 2000 until 2005 and

then

fell slightly to 65 twice in 2006 and 2008.

Although

the main trend of

students

who selected the French language is descending, it still is the highest in comparison to the

students

who chose

Mandarin

. It means that the lowest

number

of French

language

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is about 90

students

which is higher than the peak of

students

learning

Mandarin

by 15

students

. It is noticeable that both language selections changed by the same

number

but in a vice versa trend.