👉 Choose your language Why Learners Confuse Them The words ever and never both talk about time, but in opposite ways. Mixing them up can completely change the meaning of a sentence. Rule 1: Ever in Questions and Negatives We use ever in questions and negative contexts to mean at any time. 👉 Ever = […]

Most learners are taught a comforting lie about English tenses:Present means now. Past means before. Future means after. This explanation sounds logical. It is also the main reason people stay confused about English grammar for years. In real English, present tenses are not about time on a clock. They are about how a speaker connects […]

The Hidden Trap of Confused Grammar in Modern English Learning You Have Come Yesterday? It Sounds Good… But It’s Not English. Many English learners — and even experienced speakers — often say: “I have come yesterday.” At first glance, this sentence seems completely logical.It feels elegant, grammatically solid, even polite. So why do native speakers […]

Many people believe that learning a foreign language means memorizing words, rules, and grammar tables. Mathematics proves the opposite. When you study math through English, the language stops being a subject and becomes a working tool. You do not translate formulas. You think, reason, explain, and solve problems directly in the language. This is where […]

One small mistake. One big message. 🔗 Choose your language What Students Say. What the World Hears. Every teacher knows this moment:A student says, “You was there yesterday.” Or worse: “What you is?” It’s a small slip.It seems harmless.And most people would just say, “Oops, wrong verb form.” But here’s what I tell my students: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Why One Small Ending Changes the Whole Meaning At first glance, speak free and speak freely seem almost identical.Most learners translate both as “говорить свободно” and move on. And that is exactly where the real problem begins. Because English does not choose forms randomly.And the difference here is not grammatical — it is conceptual. This […]