The given bar charts depict the ratio of school-going girls and boys who learned a foreign language and the three most popular foreign languages learned by students in 1984 and 2007.
Overall, it is apparent that the charts show a downward trend. However, the number of girls who studied a foreign language was more than the number of boys, and French and German show similar trends in both years, which were downward. While Spanish shows an increasing trend over the period.
To commence with, in 1984, slightly less than half (49%) of the girls studied a foreign language, which was the highest compared to boys at 30%. Despite the downward trend in 2007, girls remained highest compared to boys: girls at 40% and boys at 25%.
Moving further, French was the most studied foreign language among teenagers in both years. Moreover, 50% of students in 1984 learned French, which was 30% more than the number of students who studied German (20%). Subsequently, Spanish was the only language whose ratio doubled, from 5% in 1984 to 10% in 2007. On the contrary, the number of students who learned French in 1984 was decrease by half in 2007 (25%).