Band 9: 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 pie charts compare the proportion of British students by their foreign language knowledge in 2000 and 2010. Overall, the number of students with no skills in foreign language decreased, while Spanish remained the most popular language choice at this university.

Spanish accounted for the largest share of foreign languages in 2000. However, every fifth British student at this university did not speak any other language apart from English. This was the second-largest group of respondents. What is more, there was an equal percentage of students declaring knowledge of French and another language (15 percent in both cases).

Similarly, Spanish speakers comprised the biggest category in the 2010 survey, with 35 percent. In contrast to the previous results, those speaking English only had been replaced by those using another language in the second place. The latter group constituted a fifth of all surveyees in 2010. French users, German students, and those speaking no foreign language made up ten percent each.