The graph below shows in formation about the languages that 13-year-old students in one school chose to study. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph reports the numbers of how many British

students

chose to learn French or

Mandarin

from 2000 to the present. In overview, French has been much more popular than Chinese with

students

since 2000.

Besides

, it was not until 2005 that figures for both

learners

in an Eastern language and a Western language stayed small variation. In 2000, over 140 adolescents studied French

in contrast

to only about 10

students

who learned

Mandarin

. For the next year, the figure for the

students

who learned French fell to 140.

Conversely

, Chinese

learners

rose to 20.

Afterward

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, the number of youngsters who learned Chinese increased,

whereas

French

learners

decreased progressively until 2005. In 2005, approximately 90 13-year-old

students

decided to study French, and about 78

learners

selected to speak

Mandarin

. There was only a difference of 12

students

. Following that, the figures for

Mandarin

learners

have been spreading in the range of 60-80 from 2005 to the present. Concerning the number of French speakers after 2005, it steadily remained in the range of 80-100.

Finally

, at present, about 90 adolescents study French, and

Mandarin

is spoken by about 70 youngsters.