The pies chart compare the percentages of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages ( French, German, Spanish, another language, two others languages) in addition to English over two separate years.
Overall, Spanish was by far spoken language besides English at the university. The proportions of students speaking more than one language increased during this time.
In 2000, the proportions of students speaking Spanish was 30%, and then rose by 5 percentage points in 2010, the highest value in the data set. In contrast, that of speaking no other language declined a half from 20% to 10% at the end of the period.
Meanwhile, the percentages of students who have the capacity of speaking two other languages and other languages were 10% and 15% in 2000. In 2010, both categories gradually evaluated by 5 percentage points. On the other hand, 15% of the students speak French in 2000, before decreasing by that amount. The proportion of students speaking German was 10% in 2000 and remained this value until the end of the period.
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