The given illustration provides a comparison between the percentages of bilingual and multilingual British students in 2000 and 2010.
Looking from an overall, it is apparent that the lion's share of them in both years of the survey only knew their mother tongue, English, while the ratio for German speakers stood still.
Getting back to the details, the majority of British university students could not speak any other foreign languages, which was estimated to be 35% and 30% in 2010 and 2000 respectively. After that, Although in 2000 one-fifth could speak Spanish, the amount halved 10 years later. Likewise, French speakers in 2010 were 5% less than the previous survey ( 10% against 15%).
In contrast, the proportion of students who could talk in German did not meet any changes and remain 10% in both years. Also, the total population of multilinguists in addition to ones knew other languages excluding French, German and Spanish jumped from 25% in 2000 to 35% in 2010.