The charts beloow show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak othe 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 beloow show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak othe 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 beloow show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak othe 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 pie charts illustrate how the distribution of languages spoken by university
students
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in England changed between 2000 and 2010.
Overall
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,
Spanish
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remained the dominant foreign
language
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in both years,
while
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the proportion of
students
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who were monolingual decreased considerably.
In contrast
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, there was noticeable growth in the shares of those speaking
Spanish
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, another
language
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, or two additional languages,
whereas
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French and German experienced either a decline or no change. In 2000, three in ten
students
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were able to speak
Spanish
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, and
this
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figure climbed by five percentage points to 35% in 2010, confirming its position as the most common foreign
language
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.
Similarly
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, the segment of
students
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speaking an unspecified “other”
language
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expanded from 15% to 20%. Meanwhile, the proportion of monolingual
students
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fell dramatically, halving from 20% to just 10%.
By contrast
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, the percentage of
students
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who spoke French dropped from 15% to 10% during the same period. In comparison, both the share of German speakers and those capable of speaking two other languages remained constant at 10%. Collectively, these changes highlight a growing tendency among British
students
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toward multilingual competence, with
Spanish
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maintaining its lead and broader
language
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diversity becoming increasingly common.

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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
Vocabulary: Replace the words students, spanish, language with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "changed" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "remained" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • language
  • speak
  • speak another language
  • English
  • share
  • proportion
  • percent
  • rise
  • increase
  • fall
  • decrease
  • change
  • trend
  • overall
  • year
  • 2000
  • 2010
  • most common
  • least common
  • top language
  • variety
  • different
  • compare
  • in contrast
  • as well as
  • in addition
  • more
  • less
  • same
  • data
  • chart
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