IELTS Task 1

The pie charts compare information about a specific University's British students who could speak other languages besides their mother tongue in 2000 and 2010.

Overall , the percentages of students who spoke Spanish in addition to English were the largest of all categories in both years. Generally speaking, the proportion of monolingual students fell dramatically to half of its former size in 2010. While the percentages for Spanish, Another language and two other languages literate students all grew in these ten years, the numbers for the other three categories either fell or remained still.

Spanish, which could be spoken by 30% of the students, grew even more popular and reached 35% in 2010. The same growth in percentage was seen by both groups who could speak another language and two other languages, changing from the initial percentages of 15% and 10%. Meanwhile, German literate students recorded the same percentages in these two years, accounted for only 10%. The percentages for No other language speakers as well as French speakers underwent a reduction of 10% and 5%, respectively.

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