Band 6+: The graph below shows the percentage of New Zealand primary school students learning a second language by language learned for the years 2006 to 2014.

The line graph illustrates the proportion of elementary school students in New Zealand learning foreign languages from 2006 to 2014.

Overall, six languages are mentioned. Throughout 8 years, the three most common languages are French, Spanish, and Japanese, whereas, Chinese, German, and Others showed the opposite output.

In 2006, the most widespread language – France, started with an impressive percentage (28%), and it reached a peak of more than 30% in 2008. Despite the fluctuation in the following years, French still took the lead until 2014. Closely behind French in the first year is Japanese with 27%, but in the next stage, they witnessed a dramatic decrease in the desire to study that lingo, it bottomed out in 2013 with just more than 15%. Spanish surpassed Japanese to take the second in 2009. From 2006, this language from Europe went up rapidly and ended up in 2014 with 23%.

On the other hand, the two least widespread languages were German and Others. Although German grabbed relative attention from students in 2006, it continuously fell in the next few years and reached the nadir of under 10% in the last stage. Other languages also saw an oscillation, it had the lowest percentages in 2012, but soon bounced back a year later and hit a high in 2013. Chinese was recorded a skyrocket increase in the period from 2013, despite its low rates in the first stage.