Given are two pie charts which illustrate the comparative data regarding the ability to speak foreign languages of students in one British university in 2 separate years (2000 and 2010).
It is noticeable that students who were able to speak only Spanish as a foreign language were accounted for the biggest area of charts in both years with 30% and 35% in 2000 and 2010 respectively. Moreover, German only group was the only one that possessed exactly same portion of the charts in 2 different years.
In ten years, percentages for Spanish only group, another language group and two other languages group experienced equal upward trend from 30% to 35%, from 15% to 20% and from 10% to 15% respectively. At the same time, rates for the students who can communicate only in English saw the highest decline (from 20% to 10%) while the French only group decreased to 10% from 15%.
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