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- 1 2 3 "Dr. Johan Vandewalle". Ghent University. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022.
- 1 2 Erard, Michael (2012). Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners. New York: Free Press. pp. 249–253. ISBN 978-1-4516-2825-8.
- 1 2 3 "Over de oprichter van Orientaal vzw, Johan Vandewalle" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 12 July 2021.
- ↑ "Polyglot of Flanders/Babel Prize certificate". 23 January 1987. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020.
- ↑ "Creating and Using Bilingual Texts for Learning a Diversity of Languages" on YouTube
- ↑ "Orientaal vzw, Centrum voor Oosterse Talen en Culturen" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 1 December 2021.
