The graph below shows in formation about the languages that 13-year-old students in one school chose to study. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given line chart compares data about 2 various languages namely, French and Mandarin that students whose ages were 13 have been opted from 2000 to the present.

Overall

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, it is important that the popularity of Mandarin

in contrast

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to French has increased since 2000.

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the diagram, in the beginning, French, the most common language among students, hit roughly 150;

then

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its selection reduced significantly to nearly 90 in 2005;

however

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, it rose moderately to 100 in 2006. And after that, it declined slightly to approximately the same number as in 2005. The graph demonstrates that the trend of Mandarin was the reverse of French fashion on account of the fact that it reached almost 10;

thereafter

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, it leapt considerably to the maximum point of just over 75 in 2004;

nevertheless

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, it fluctuated between nearly 65 and 70 from 2005 to 2009. Later it went up fractionally to nearly the same number as in 2005.