The two bar charts below show the proportion of 14-to 16-year-old students studying a foreign language in an English speaking country, and the top three foreign languages. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

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

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

You should write at least 150 words.
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The provided bar charts represent the percentage of students aged 14 to 16 studying a foreign
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made by in an English-native country.
This
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survey compared the rates of
male
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males
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and
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females
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as well as
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the top three languages studied from 1984 and 2007.
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,
French
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the French
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language
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dominated in both years and female students showed
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the most
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interest in
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another
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. Looking in more detail, almost
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half of the girls learned a foreign
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while
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the boys accounted just for 30% in 1984.
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, the proportion of women in
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course declined by 10%
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even though still leading the portion compared to men at a quarter.
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, regardless of gender, half of the total students studied French in 1984. In the same year, German was the second most popular
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(20%), followed by Spanish at around 5%. In 2007, despite German and Spanish
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a similar ascending trend, rising to 25% and 10% respectively, French recorded a decrease to 35% but still the highest preferred
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of study.
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