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

The presented bar charts compare data about the percentage of students whose ages are between 14 and 16 who studied 3 various languages in English spoken country at 2 different times.

Overall

, it was important that girls liked to study foreign languages more than boys, and the fraction of both genders who studied language reduced over the period of 23 years;

moreover

, French was the main one.

According to

the students' diagram, at the start, girls, having the highest portion in both years, hit roughly half;

then

its trend nearly 10% decrease from the prior in 2007. Boys reached 30% in 1984;

furthermore

, it declined to exactly a quarter in 2007. The language graph demonstrates that in the beginning, French, the most popular course, touched exactly

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half;

thereafter

, its proportion dipped significantly to 25% in 2007. the fashion of Germany scored 20% in 1984 and after that, it fell to 13%;

in contrast

, Spanish had climbed fashion from 5% in 1984 to 10% in 2007.