The two bar charts below show the proportion of 15-to 16-year-old students studying a foreign language in an English speaking country, and the top three languages.

The two bar charts illustrate the proportions of 14- to 16-year-old students in an English-speaking country who studied a foreign language in 1984 and 2007, as well as the three most commonly studied languages. Overall, the percentage of students learning a foreign language declined over the period, with girls consistently showing higher participation than boys. […]