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The pie charts demonstrate the percentages of students who could communicate in other languages besides English at a university in England over ten years, starting from 2000.
Roughly speaking, British students who were able to speak Spanish represented the highest percentage in both two years. On the other hand, the number of those being monolingual experienced a significant decrease over the period in question.
In 2000, one-fifth of students were incapable of using any languages other than English, but ten years later, the figure halved, reaching a low of 10 percent. The proportion of those who could speak French underwent a similar downward trend, declining by five percent from 2000 to 2010. German speakers accounted for one-tenth in 2000, at which point the percentage remained static over the period shown.
What stands out from the charts is that 30 percent of students in the university could communicate in both English and Spanish in 2000. Ten years later, the figure marginally rose to 35 percent. Those who were able to interact in another language initially made up 15 percent, after which the percentage experienced gains of 5 percent in 2010. An identical tendency was witnessed in the portion of trilingual students, with the figure being 15 percent in 2010.  

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