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What Is an Article, Really?
22.07.2025

What Is an Article, Really?

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

Understanding It Beyond Grammar Rules “An article is not a word. It’s a decision.”— Tymur Levitin Why Students Struggle with Articles Many students say things like:“I know it’s ‘a’ or ‘the’… but I don’t know why.” That’s the point. Because an article isn’t just grammar. It’s how you identify an object in your mind.It’s how […]

Why Learning Hungarian with a Private Tutor Feels Like Cracking a Unique Code
22.07.2025

Why Learning Hungarian with a Private Tutor Feels Like Cracking a Unique Code

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

Choose your language: 🔗 Start here Hungarian isn’t just a language.It’s a code — rich, complex, and surprisingly logical once you understand how it works. For many language learners, Hungarian seems like one of the most mysterious European languages. It doesn’t look like German, doesn’t sound like French, and definitely doesn’t follow the familiar patterns of […]

There Is No Magic Answer — But There Is a Logic Behind German Endings
21.07.2025

There Is No Magic Answer — But There Is a Logic Behind German Endings

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

Author’s Column by Tymur LevitinLanguage. Identity. Meaning. Practice. Imagine this.A teacher explains a grammar rule. A student listens carefully, then asks:“Why is it like that?”And the teacher, still young and full of knowledge, but not yet full of experience, answers honestly:“Well, that’s just how it is.” The student frowns. That’s not what they were hoping […]

Together, but Torn Apart: When a Dream Speaks Louder Than a Confession
21.07.2025

Together, but Torn Apart: When a Dream Speaks Louder Than a Confession

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

A Study of Emotional Codes in Russian and British Songwriting Author’s column by Tymur Levitin — founder, director, and lead teacher of Levitin Language School / Start Language School by Tymur Levitin🔗 Choose your language A Dream Instead of Words — “Пусть тебе приснится Пальма де Майорка” This iconic Russian ballad by Mikhail Shufutinsky, composed by […]

B1 ≠ Mastery of A2: Why Levels Don’t Guarantee Control
21.07.2025

B1 ≠ Mastery of A2: Why Levels Don’t Guarantee Control

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

Author’s column by Tymur LevitinFounder and Head Teacher at Levitin Language School🔗 Start Language School by Tymur Levitin How can someone pass B1… but still struggle with A2? Simple: they never truly mastered the basics.They just moved on. This happens more often than most teachers want to admit:A student “graduates” to a higher level, but: Because moving forward ≠ internalizing. […]

Why Learning Finnish with a Private Tutor Feels Like Discovering a New Mental Map
21.07.2025

Why Learning Finnish with a Private Tutor Feels Like Discovering a New Mental Map

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Choose your language → https://levitintymur.com/#languages What if learning Finnish isn’t just about the language?What if it’s about discovering a whole new way to think? At Levitin Language School, we believe that Finnish is not simply a language of long compound words and vowel harmony — it’s a key to another mental landscape. A quiet, structured, poetic […]

How One German Sentence Can Mean Five Different Things — And Why That’s Not a Problem
20.07.2025

How One German Sentence Can Mean Five Different Things — And Why That’s Not a Problem

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

🧠 Choose your language: https://levitintymur.com/#languages It’s the Same Words — But Not the Same Message Ask any student of German: “Can one sentence mean five things?”The confident ones will say: “No, not really.”The honest ones will say: “I’m not sure.” The truth? One sentence can have many meanings.Not because the grammar changes.But because the intention, the focus, and the emphasis shift — […]

Why English Needed to Invent “Future in the Past”
20.07.2025

Why English Needed to Invent “Future in the Past”

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

Part 1 of the series: “Time Is Not Just Grammar” Language is logic. But it’s also identity. Most people think grammar is about correctness. But grammar is about clarity — of thought, of timing, of responsibility. And sometimes, grammar has to fill a hole in logic.That’s exactly what Future in the Past does. The problem English faced […]

What a Dictionary Won’t Tell You — and Why Intuition Might
20.07.2025

What a Dictionary Won’t Tell You — and Why Intuition Might

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

Author’s column by Tymur LevitinFounder and Head Teacher at Levitin Language School🔗 Start Language School by Tymur Levitin A word is not just a meaning — it’s a choice You find a word in the dictionary. It looks right.You use it. And something feels… off. The sentence is “correct,” but the meaning — not quite.That’s because a […]

Why Swedish Sounds Like a Secret Code — And Why That’s a Good Thing
20.07.2025

Why Swedish Sounds Like a Secret Code — And Why That’s a Good Thing

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

Choose your language: 🔗 Click here Learn Swedish with a private tutor — and start hearing what others don’t. When people hear Swedish for the first time, many describe it as soft, melodic, and… a bit mysterious.To some, it sounds like a secret code — rhythmic, unusual, full of vowels and sing-song intonations that feel both […]