The given charts illustrate the fraction of teenage students aged from 14 to 16 learning other languages besides their mother tongue and the data on the most well-known languages among French, German, and Spanish.
Overall, the fraction of teens who learn more languages was notably recorded in the girls over the periods. French was ranked first in terms of the most chosen languages for students to study, followed by German in second place and Spanish in last.
In 1984, nearly a half of girls (48%) pursued modern languages as opposed to a large proportion of boys (30%). Having continually taken the lead, the portion of girls who studied languages nearly doubled that of boys, 40% for the former and 24% for the latter.
In terms of French in 1984, which a majority of students enrolled in, was marked as the most popular language among others (50%). There was a difference of 15% between German and Spanish, at 20% and 5% respectively. Over 23 years, the trends were the same, but the gaps between those languages were narrowed down. In 2007, the percentage of students taking part in French was 22%, which was only 10% and 12% more compared to that in German (12%) and Spanish (10%).