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.

The provided two bar charts illustrate the percentage of 14 to 16-year-old students who study a contemporary global language in an English-speaking nation and the three most common other languages.between1984 and 2007. These other languages are categorized as French, German, and Spanish. Looking at an

overall

perspective, it is apparent that girls dominate boys in the ratio of students studying an international language.

In addition

, French is still in the highest position among other categories during the given period.

To begin

with, the contribution in the ratio of individual students who studied in another language experienced a downward trend from 1984 to 2007. The girl’s proportion started at nearly 50% and decreased to 40%. Meanwhile, the proportion of boys fell from 5% of the initial percentage to 25% in the

last

year. Turning to the top three famous foreign data,

French

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and

German

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Germany

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declined during the same time frame except for Spanish. Both began at 50% and 20% declined to 25% and 15% respectively.

In contrast

, Spanish rose five-fold to 10% in the

last

period shown.