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 pie charts illustrate the percentage of British college

students

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capable of conversing in languages other than English from 2000 to 2010.

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it is clear that

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there was an upward trend in the prevalence of Spanish and some other languages,

whereas

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French demonstrated a decline, and German maintained consistent representation over

ten-year

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period.

To begin

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with, Spanish emerged as the most commonly spoken language among

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, displaying a marginal increase from 30% to 35%.

Subsequently

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, there was

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a slight rise of 5% in the rates of

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conversant in another language, from 15% to 20%, and in two other languages, from 10% to 15%.

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, the percentage of

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proficient in French decreased from 15% to 10%,

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the number of

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who did not speak any other language

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declined from 20% to 10%. Surprisingly, the proportion of

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speaking German remained stable at 10% throughout the years 2000 to 2010.