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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features.

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.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features.
The pie graphs compare the percentages of British students who speak
other
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another language
other languages
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language
in addition
to English at university in England between 2000 and 2010.
Overall
it can be seen that in both years the
language
of Spanish was the most popular spoken by students
whereas
, others
language
less
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were less
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preferred in 2010.
To begin
with
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with,
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in 2000 the largest sector was
Spanish
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the Spanish
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language
comprised
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comprising
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30%
then
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than
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in 2010 it witnessed
increase
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on
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of
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5%.
According
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no other
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language
was at 20% in 2000 and
then
decline
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declined
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to ten
in
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apply
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one in 2010.
Moreover
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another
language
was a quarter in 2000 and
then
rose
at
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to
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20% in 2010. The most interesting
noticed
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notice
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that
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is that
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German
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the German
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language
was the same percentage in both years formed at only 10%.
Also
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it is important to notice that
French
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the French
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language
was 15% in 2000 and in 2010 no one
spoken
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spoke
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this
language
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportions
  • multilingual
  • linguistic abilities
  • speakers
  • trends
  • popularity
  • globalization
  • educational policy
  • significant statistics
  • dramatic increase/decline
  • language learning
  • non-European languages
  • decade
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