The pie charts provide information about the percentages of British students who were attending an English University in 2000 and 2010 and simultaneously were able to speak French, German, Spanish and one or two more other languages or no foreign languages.
What is clear from the graph is that only for some tongues the percentages had remained unchanged or reduced moderately over the decade considered in the study. Conversely, for other languages, these figures doubled or increased only by a slight margin.
Approximately one third of the attendees, in fact, spoke only Spanish (35% in 2010 against 30%in 2000) while only 10% of them were able to express their ideas in German. The same number was recorded in 2010 for French and represents a reduction of 5% compared to 2000. The increased percentage of students who learnt one or two more languages over this time is also 5%.
On the whole, the proportion of students at British universities who had improved their speaking skills in one or more languages other than their mother tongue and French from 2000 to 2010 increased for some languages and remained the same for others.
The pie charts provide information about the percentages of British students who were attending an English University in 2000 and 2010 and
simultaneously
were able to speak French, German, Spanish and one or two more
other
languages
or no foreign languages.
What is
clear
from the graph is that
only
for
some
tongues the percentages had remained unchanged or
reduced
moderately
over the decade considered in the study.
Conversely
, for
other
languages
, these figures doubled or increased
only
by a slight margin.
Approximately one third of the attendees, in fact, spoke
only
Spanish (35% in 2010 against 30%in 2000) while
only
10% of them were able to express their
ideas
in German. The same number
was recorded
in 2010 for French and represents a reduction of 5% compared to 2000. The increased percentage of students who
learnt one
or two more
languages
over this time is
also
5%.
On the whole
, the proportion of students at British universities who had
improved
their speaking
skills
in one or more
languages
other
than their mother tongue and French from 2000 to 2010 increased for
some
languages
and remained the same for others.