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 comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts give information about the percentage of British

students

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who could speak other languages

in addition

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to English between 2000 and 2010. The units are measured in percentages.

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the

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of

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who could speak only Spanish and French decreased and the figure for German remained stable, the figures for others rose over the given period. In 2000, the indicators for learners who knew only one additional language; French, Spanish,

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and German

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stood at 15%, 20%, and 10%, respectively.

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the latter remained constant over the decade, the other two figures declined to 10%. With regard to the proportion of

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who did not know any other language, it ranked first at the beginning of the period at 30% and it continued to be the dominant figure until 2010, increasing by 5%. There was a slight rise of 5% in the percentage of

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who spoke two additional languages, which accounted for 10% in 2000. The figure for "another language" was 10% before reaching its high level of 15%.