Author’s Column by Tymur LevitinFounder, Director, and Head TeacherLevitin Language School | Start Language School by Tymur LevitinGlobal Learning. Personal Approach. 🌍 Choose your language: 👉 https://levitintymur.com/#languages Why Some Languages Stay Invisible — And Why That Matters Some languages dominate the global conversation.Others remain almost invisible — even when millions of people speak them every […]

Saraiki is one of those languages that millions of people speak every day — yet few outside South Asia have ever heard its name. It does not dominate headlines, it is rarely taught at universities abroad, and it is often mistakenly reduced to a “dialect.” In reality, Saraiki is a fully developed language with its […]

Author’s Column by Tymur Levitin — Founder, Director, Senior Teacher of Levitin Language School / Start Language School by Tymur LevitinGlobal Learning. Personal Approach. | Speak free! Choose your language: https://levitintymur.com/#languages Why this article exists People often meet this topic not through ideology, but through language: The problem is simple: many terms look “translatable,” but […]

An Author’s Column by Tymur Levitin People ask this question constantly — sometimes openly, sometimes silently: When are you ready to teach? Is it when you’re young?When you’re experienced?When you’ve collected enough diplomas, certificates, hours, years? The honest answer is uncomfortable: There is no formula. And that’s exactly why this question matters. Age Is a […]

Before we talk about money as economics, we should admit something uncomfortable:money is first a word, and only then a number. Every culture names its currency, its smallest unit, its “nothing,” its “almost free.”And those names are never neutral. They encode how a society understands value, loss, effort, progress, and scale. This article is not […]

What a Coin Name Reveals About Language, Memory, and Measure Before money becomes a matter of economics, it is a matter of language.Every currency reform begins not with coins, but with words — and words never change neutrally. The recent Ukrainian discussion about replacing kopiika with shah as the name of the smallest monetary unit […]

Where do you feel “at home”?Not where your name is registered. Not the house you bought.But the place — or feeling — where you belong. As a language teacher, I’ve seen students hesitate when translating the word дом or дім. They ask: “Should I say house or home?”And I always reply:“Depends. What do you mean […]

Before we begin, feel free to choose the language you’re currently learning:👉 Choose your language One Word, Multiple Realities In Russian, the word Родина means more than just the place of birth — it’s the land, the people, the soil, the bloodline. It’s where you come from, even if you no longer live there. In […]

Many students carry a quiet illusion with them. They believe that once they learn a foreign language well enough, the world will change its attitude toward them.That doors will open automatically.That respect will come by default.That they will arrive in another country and suddenly become someone important. This illusion is dangerous. Not because ambition is […]

Mistakes make people nervous. Learners try to avoid them.Teachers try to correct them.Systems try to eliminate them. And in doing so, something essential is lost. Because mistakes are not the opposite of learning.They are evidence that learning is happening. A Mistake Is Not a Failure of Language Most people treat mistakes as proof of incompetence. […]