The pie charts illustrate the percentage breakdown of one university student in England that could speak languages other than English in 2000 and 2010.
Overall, the proportion of students who can speak Spanish, another language and two other languages increased over the period whereas the proportion of English only and French decreased.
First of all, the percentage of students speaking Spanish only increased from 30% to 35%, after a decade which accounted for the most significant composition in the total. The same trend could also be viewed in the groups of students speaking another language and two other languages, with both of them, increased by 5% between 2000 and 2010.
By contrast, it can be seen from the charts that the rate of students who could not speak other language decreased to half from 20% to 10% throughout the surveyed period. Similarly, students speaking French only as an additional language also shrank its share from 15% to 10%, whereas the portion of German only kept the share with 10% from 2000 to 2010.