The two pie charts show the percentage of British students who able to speak other languages excluding English in 2000 and 2010.
Overall, Spanish was the most popular language, and much more students could speak at least two languages after ten years.
The proportion of students who could speak Spanish and English was higher than the other in 2000 and 2010, at 30% and 35%, respectively. The percentage of students who chose German as the second language rose by 5% to reach 20% and this figure for French dropped by 5% to hit 10%.
After the ten-year period, in 2010, the number of British students who didn’t study any other languages decreased by half from 20% in 2000. Except students who studied French, German and Spanish, the percentage of bilingual increased by 5% to reach a fifth of the chart in 2010 while people who were trilingual remained constant, at 10% in both years.
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