The charts below show 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.

The two pie charts illustrate the percentages of

British

university

students

who can use other languages

besides

English in two different

years

. In general, it can be clearly seen that there was a rise in the proportion of

second

and

third

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language

speakers over a period of 10

years

and the majority of

British

students

could speak at least one foreign

Language

in

the

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both

years

.

According to

the charts, the proportion of

British

students

who spoke a

second

and third

language

was 80%,

whereas

those who spoke only English accounted for only 20% in 2000. After 10

years

, the percentage of

second

and

third

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language

speakers rose slightly by 5% from 70% to 70% and from 10% to 15% respectively. Spanish was the most common

second

language

spoken by the

students

in

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both

years

, accounting for 30% in 2000 to 35% in 2010.

Similarly

, the proportion of

British

students

who spoke a

second

language

apart from French, German,

Spanish

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rose gently from 15% in 2000 to 20% in 2010.

While

the percentage of Brutish

students

who spoke French indicated a decline

by

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5% in 2010, there was a period of stability at 10% in the number of German speakers over the 10-year period.