Some people The charts below show the proportions 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 comparson

Some people The charts below show the proportions 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 comparson
The pie charts illustrate the percentage of UK
students
in one university who could speak foreign
languages
in addition
to their mother tongue in the years 2000 and 2010.
Overall
, the most popular language among the British
students
was Spanish
while
the least common was German and the other two
languages
. Another noticeable feature is that after ten years the proportion of
students
who chose
languages
decreased to one in ten except for Spanish. To start with, the percentage of
students
who only opted for Spanish was 30% in 2000
then
slightly grew to 35%. Followed by those who chose another language, making up 15%
then
rose to 20% at the same time period. Figures for
students
who speak no other
languages
halved from 20% to 20% respectively. Regarding the share of
students
with lower percentages, those who only knew French was 15% in 2000
then
dipped to 5%, constituting one in ten in 2010. The proportion of
students
who opted for only German and the other two
languages
remained steady (10%) throughout the analyzed period.
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