The charts below show the propotions 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.

These pie charts illustrate the percentage of pupils in a British university who could speak different languages other than English in 2000 and 2010.

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, the majority of students had a command in speaking Spanish, both in 2000 and 2010. It is interesting to note that in the year 2000, exactly 30 per

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of university fellows spoke Spanish

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French was the second most common foreign language at 15 per

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.

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, only a small number of pupils were fluent in the German dialect reaching 10 per

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.A similar figure of students could speak two other languages apart from English

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one-fifth of the university fellows did not know any other language

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in 2010, the proportion of the individuals knowing Spanish increased to 35 percent.

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, there was a significant drop of 10 per

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in the figures of fellows who could speak English only.There was a small increment of 5% in people knowing any imported language.

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, there was a small decline in French-speaking candidates but no change was seen in German speakers or those with a command of 2 foreign languages in 2010 as compared to 2000.