Band 7+: 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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

pie chats demonstrate the percentage of university students in England able to speak languages apart from English in 2000 and 2010.

Overall, Spanish was relatively the most popular language in both years, with another language distantly followed by. By contrast, the least percent of students spoke merely English.

German, French, and Spanish were the languages spoken by majority of students. The former two accounted for a quarter in 2000 and a fifth in 2010, with the proportions for French being more by five percent initially. As for the latter, the opposite pattern of change can be seen: it went from nearly a third to 35%.

The figures for the rest of categories in question experienced distinct trends. The proportion of those who spoke no other language than English decreased two-fold, making a fall of 10%. Furthermore, the percent of trilingual students didn’t change, staying at one tenth, while that of bilinguals increased to a fifth by five percent.