The pie charts depict the proportion of Australian high school students who learned a second language in Melbourne and Sydney in the year 2017.
Overall, it can be seen that Mandarin was the most learned language in both cities in the given year, and Italian was preferred in Melbourne.
In both Melbourne and Sydney, students showed their highest interest in learning Mandarin, and the percentages were 40% and 45%, respectively. Moreover, Japanese was the second most learned language chosen by the students in both cities and comprised 25% in Melbourne and 30% in Sydney.
In Sydney, the least preferred languages to learn were Indonesian and Italian, which comprised only 10% cumulatively, whereas, in Melbourne, the percentage of Italian and Indonesian languages was 15% and 10%, respectively. In addition, the other languages came in third position in Sydney at 15%, while it was 10% in Melbourne and was equivalent to the Indonesian language percentage.