Band 8+: the pie chart below shows the native languages spoken by students at Cambridge in year 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie chart illustrates the percentage of students who spoke five languages (English, Hindi, Chinese, French, and Urdu) as their mother tongues at Cambridge College in 2007.

Overall, English was spoken by nearly half of the student population as their first language. The second most spoken language was Hindi, while Urdu was spoken by the least proportion of students as their native tongue among the five languages in the year 2007. The remaining two languages, Chinese and French, were spoken by an almost similar proportion of students.

With regard to English, it was the mother tongue of the majority of students, as it was spoken by 45% of the pupils. In second place, Hindi was spoken by 30% of the students as their first language. Furthermore, 3% more students spoke French than those who spoke Chinese. The latter was the first language of 10% of the pupils, while the former was spoken by 13% of the students.

In contrast, Urdu was the least spoken of the languages mentioned, spoken by merely 2% of the total students.