After working as a teacher during the immediate post-war period, he continued his studies within the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.

His post-graduate studies were completed in the 50s in the same university in Belgrade, where he presented his degree on the subject of the specifics of the spoken language of Has region.

He also worked as an Educational Counselor of the Institute of Education Advancement, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy in Pristina, Vice-President of the Pedagogical School in Prizren, Chief of Department of the Albanian language and literature of the Superior Pedagogical School of Pristina and the Faculty of Philosophy, and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Pristina.

He was a board member of several magazines, such as: Advancement, Bulletin of Superior Pedagogical School of Pristina, Bulletin of Faculty of Philosophy, Gjurmime Albanologjike, Language Studies I – Dialectology, Studia Humanistica, International Seminar of the Albanian language, literature and culture.

Professor Bardhi authored and co-authored seventeen books and dictionaries, six academic brochures, over thirty published articles in scientific journals, seventeen translated books, collector of folkloric songs which were published by the Institute of Albanology, among others.