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By Tymur Levitin — founder, director, and lead educator at Levitin Language School🔗 Choose your language👤 Teacher Profile – Tymur Levitin He was sentenced to die for a crime he didn’t commit. The courtroom was silent. A young lawyer stood beside him, fighting not just for one man’s life — but for the meaning of […]

🗂️ Category: Online Language Learning 🗣️ Introduction You studied going to, but suddenly you hear gonna. You know the word, but in real speech it transforms into something completely different. This is normal: in spoken American English, words are reduced (or “swallowed”) because language follows muscle movement and ease of pronunciation, not textbook spelling. Let’s […]

Passive in Konjunktiv (Reported Speech & Hypotheticals) “The passive is hard enough. Add the subjunctive, and you face the real exam monsters.” — Tymur Levitin Choose your language The paradox before we start: two subjunctives, two logics German has two Konjunktiv systems: 👉 The paradox: in passive, the forms often look identical to indicative, so […]

🌍 Choose your language Introduction Spanish is spoken by more than 500 million people worldwide, but many learners struggle with real conversation. They may know grammar and vocabulary, yet when it’s time to speak — they hesitate, translate in their heads, or sound unnatural. At Levitin Language School | Start Language School by Tymur Levitin, […]

🌍 Choose your language Introduction Job interviews are stressful even in your native language. When they take place in English, the challenge doubles: you must sound professional, confident, and culturally appropriate. At Levitin Language School | Start Language School by Tymur Levitin, we prepare students for interviews in English by focusing on the most important […]

📍 Why “Thinking in English” Is Not the Magic Key 🧠 The Myth of Thinking in English Many language learners are told: “You need to think in English!” The idea sounds powerful — a shortcut to fluency. But is it really true? Or even helpful? The truth is: thinking in a foreign language is not […]

Author’s column by Tymur Levitin — founder, director and teacher of Levitin Language School / Start Language School by Tymur Levitin 🕊️ Introduction. The song of my time We used to sing this song with a guitar. In the yard, in the kitchen, on the staircase. Some sang aloud, some silently, but all — sincerely. […]

How culture, age, and gender shape goodbyes🔗 Choose your language✍️ Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin Founder, teacher, and translator at Levitin Language School🔗 Teacher’s profile One moment — two truths Sometimes two songs tell the same story, yet sound as if they came from opposite banks of a river.So it is with Alexander Marshal’s “Отпускаю” […]

🔗 Choose your language ✍️ Author’s Column | Tymur LevitinFounder, teacher and translator at Levitin Language School / Start Language School by Tymur Levitin 🧠 Why Students Always Confuse Still and Yet Ask any learner what still and yet mean — and the answer will be: “both mean ‘ще’ (🇺🇦) / ‘ещё’ (📖).”That seems correct […]

The Impersonal Passive (Agentless Style) “Sometimes it doesn’t matter who does it. What matters is that it is done.” — Tymur Levitin Choose your language The paradox before we start: “But where is the subject?” German requires every finite verb to have a subject. So how can passive exist without one? 👉 This paradox explains […]