The first bar chart illustrates the percentage of people speaking foreign language, depending on their gender. Moreover, the second bar chart delineates the proportion of the three most popular languages.
Overall, both of these bar charts tend to decrease. Additionally, the amount of girls studying other languages was the most; while in the second bar chart, French had the largest number of learners.
In 1984, nearly 50% of girls learning foreign language, which was 20% more than boys’ one. In 2007, there was a slight decline in both boys’ and girls’ percentage of studying other languages, which was 25% and 40% respectively. Despite the decrease in percentage, girls still outnumbered boys in learning language.
In 1984, French took 5 times as much as the percentage of Spanish in the number of people studying other languages. In 2007, while French reduced half the number of learners, Spanish increased twice compared to its original percentage. Moreover, German was witnessed a diminutive decline in the percentage of learners of this language.