The two bar charts below show the propotion of 14 to 16-year old students studying a foreign language in an English speaking country and the top 3 foreign languages . Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisions where relevant.

The two bar charts below show the propotion of 14 to 16-year old students studying a foreign  language in an English speaking country and the top 3 foreign languages .

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisions where relevant.
The bar charts
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the fraction of teenage students studying
overseas
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language with
english
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as
native
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their native
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tongue and
a
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top 3 most
learning
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languages in the
years
1984 and 2007.
Overall
,
it is clear that
French was
most
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popular language to learn, but it gradually fell over the
years
,
however
, still remaining
its
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spot. Over the
23 year
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period, it was the girls who studied more foreign languages than the
boys
. In 1984, half of the teenagers were more passionate about learning French as their second language.
However
, in the next decades, the percentage of French learners considerably
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to approximately 25%.
Whereas
, German was
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the
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second place in the ranking, having
interest
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of one-fifth of the students.
Furthermore
, Spanish had close to 5% of the scholars, being at the bottom of the ranking. Over the
years
, German declined to slightly over 10%,
while
Spanish doubled its fraction, reaching 10%.
In addition
, girls were the top gender to study outside languages in 1984, hitting about 50%
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,
while
the other 30% were
the
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boys
.
However
over the next 23
years
, Girls were
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the same position as
boys
in past, but
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boys
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fraction slightly decreased, reaching nearly 25%.
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