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.
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Initially
, in 1984, Linking Words
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14 to 16-year-old female students studied a foreign language was approximately 50 Linking Words
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, the male section was in the region of a third. By 2007, Change the spelling
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however
, the figures for both genders had declined slightly to 40 Linking Words
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and roughly 25 Change the spelling
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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 Change the spelling
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Subsequently
followed by German, which accounts for 20 Linking Words
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, and Spanish about 5 Change the spelling
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Furthermore
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while
the percentage of students learning French and German decreased to 25 Linking Words
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percent
and 5 Change the spelling
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in 2007, Spanish had a two-fold increase in the same period reaching 10 Change the spelling
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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.Change the spelling
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