The pie charts demonstrate the proportion of second language classes attended by school students in two Australian regions in 2017.
Overall, in both of these cities, the percentage of students learning Mandarin showed the highest performance, while classes such as Italian and Indonesian were mostly occupied only by students of Melbourne.
In 2017, of these two cities, the most popular language was Mandarin, making up 40% and 45% of learners in Melbourne and Sydney, respectively. Additionally, a total of 25 percent of students took Japanese lessons as a second language in Melbourne. The least wanted and learnt languages in the same region were Indonesian and a variety of other languages, 10% each. Another European language, Italian, did not manage to appear in the list of most learnt languages in this particular city, since the proportion of students who attended the following subject consisted of 15% in 2017.
Moreover, in the same year, it was recorded that 5 percent more pupils were learning Japanese and other different languages in Sydney in comparison to Melbourne, its competitor. There was a really similar trend with Italian and Indonesian, as both of these languages accounted for 5% each, meaning that the percentage of students learning the following languages were less active in comparison to Melbourne.