The charts below show the proportions of british students at one university in england who were able to speak other lanhuages in addition to english,in 2000 and 2010. summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features , and make comoarison where relevent.

The charts below show the proportions of british students at one university in england who were able to speak other lanhuages in addition to english,in 2000 and 2010. 

summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features , and make comoarison where relevent.
The two pie charts compare the percentages of British
students
at a university in England who were able to speak
languages
other than English in 2000 and 2010. In 2000, 30% of
students
could speak Spanish, which was the most common second
language
. The proportion of
students
speaking no other
language
besides
English stood at 20%. 15% of
students
could speak another
language
, followed by 15% who spoke only French. The figures for
students
who spoke only German or two other
languages
were both 10%. In 2010, the percentage of
students
who could speak Spanish increased to 35%, making it the most significant rise. The proportion of
students
who spoke only English dropped to 10%, showing a decrease in monolingualism. Both French and German speakers decreased to 10%. The percentage of
students
speaking another
language
remained unchanged at 15%,
while
the figure for those speaking two other
languages
grew slightly to 15%.
Overall
, the data suggests an increase in multilingualism among British
students
over the decade, particularly in the use of Spanish and other
languages
.
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  • significantly
  • increase
  • decrease
  • multilingual
  • bilingual
  • linguistic skills
  • global context
  • notable
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