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 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.
IELTS Writing Task Chart for 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 data illustrates the percentages of British
students
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who could speak other languages in two different years, 2000 and 2010.
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, there was an increase among
students
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who were not able to speak any other language,
while
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other indicated languages showed a slight or no change whatsoever. In 2010, the proportions of Spanish and
French speaking
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students
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showed
decline
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10% and 5%, respectively, in comparison with 2000.
On the other hand
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, scholars could speak in two other languages and another language demonstrated an increase within a 10-year period; each rose
excatly
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exactly
5%.
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, the number
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of students
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who could speak merely in English accounted for the most portion of the total both at the beginning and end of the decade, and relatively altered from 30% to 35%.
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, German speakers remained still in terms of percentage regardless of the year, which means 10% of all
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of
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the university knew German.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • multilingualism
  • globalisation
  • immigration
  • education policy
  • career prospects
  • cultural understanding
  • distribution
  • percentage
  • increased/decreased
  • significant
  • trends
  • shifts
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