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The chart below shows 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 chart below shows 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
two
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 pie charts illustrate the percentages of British
students
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 in a university in England who can speak additional languages apart from English in
two
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 years, 2000 and 2010.
Overall
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, it can be clearly seen that Spanish is the most spoken
language
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 after English among
students
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 in both years
whereas
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 the pattern changes of other languages varied dramatically between the
two
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 years. In detail, Spanish accounted for 30% in 2000 and it increased by 5% in 2010
while
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 still maintaining the position as the highest spoken
language
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. In the first year, a fifth of British
students
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 in the institute speak no other
language
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 but English, making it the second-highest category in the chart.
However
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, interestingly,
this
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 proportion was reduced by half in the other year.
In addition
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, the number of
students
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 who spoke another
language
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 rose by 5% to 20% in 2010, from 15% in 2000. In the year 2001, those who spoke
two
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 other languages and German shared equal and the lowest proportions, which is one in ten, compared to 2010, the former was slightly higher, at 15% and the latter remained constant, at 10%. French speakers was less than a fifth in 2001 and declined to 10% in 2010 which was similar to the percentages of German and those who speak no other
language
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.

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