He has published over 30 papers in prestigious journals for foreign languages studies including Foreign Language Teaching and Research.

在外语类核心期刊、权威期刊如《外语教学与研究》等发表论文30多篇；

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The trend was to take languages with another subject, business studies being one of the most popular.

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"With colonisation came the deliberate subversion of these languages, " said Dr Bill Fogarty from the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University.

BBC: Lost indigenous language revived in Australia

He added systematically to his store of languages, among them Hebrew, which he learnt at 70 to help his studies of the Bible.

ECONOMIST: Enoch Powell