The two bar charts show the proportion of 14-16 year-old students studying a modern foreign language in an English Speaking country and the top three popular foreign languages. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar charts illustrate the percentage of male and female scholars aged 14-16 who studied a foreign language in an English-speaking nation,

as well as

the three most popular languages that were studied during the same period.

Initially

, in 1984,

while

14 to 16-year-old female students studied a foreign language was approximately 50

percent

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, the male section was in the region of a third. By 2007,

however

, the figures for both genders had declined slightly to 40

percent

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and roughly 25

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, respectively. Regarding the foreign languages that were studied by the boys and girls in 1984, the proportion of French was 50

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.

Subsequently

followed by German, which accounts for 20

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, and Spanish about 5

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.

Furthermore

,

while

the percentage of students learning French and German decreased to 25

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and 5

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in 2007, Spanish had a two-fold increase in the same period reaching 10

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. In summary, the proportion of girls who studied a foreign language was larger than boys in both given years. Even though French and German decreased significantly, both languages remained more popular than Spanish.