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The Language of Separation: How Words Mark the End Before We Do
The Language of Separation: How Words Mark the End Before We Do | LEVITIN SCHOOL
Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

The Language of Separation: How Words Mark the End Before We Do

Some moments in life are not spoken — they are declared. Officially, irreversibly, and often without room for emotion. Among them is the end of a marriage. But what if we paused not at the event, but at the language that describes it? In courtrooms and legal documents, the end of a shared life is […]

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• 11.01.2026 • 2 min read
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Why Translating the “Aeneid” Is More Than Words: From Virgil to Kotliarevsky | LEVITIN SCHOOL
11.08.2025

Why Translating the “Aeneid” Is More Than Words: From Virgil to Kotliarevsky

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

🔗 Choose your language: https://levitintymur.com/#languages🇬🇧 English Courses at Levitin Language School🇩🇪 German Courses at Levitin Language School🇺🇦 Learn Ukrainian A Journey Across Centuries and Languages When Virgil wrote the Aeneid in Latin over two thousand years ago, his goal was not just to tell a story of Aeneas. He was building a national epic — a cultural foundation for Rome, full of […]

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What If I Had Known? | LEVITIN SCHOOL
09.07.2025

What If I Had Known?

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

Why the Subjunctive Past Isn’t About the Past at All At Levitin Language School, we teach languages not by memorizing — but by understanding. One of the most fascinating aspects of grammar is how it reflects our regrets, doubts, hopes, and alternate realities — especially when we say things like: “If I had known…” It sounds […]

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Translating Literary Identity: A Cross-Language Study of Salinger and Remarque | LEVITIN SCHOOL
07.07.2025

Translating Literary Identity: A Cross-Language Study of Salinger and Remarque

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

Author: Tymur Levitin, founder of Levitin Language School / Start Language School by Tymur Levitin Choose your language: https://levitintymur.com/#languages The soul of a character lives in the language When a student asks me why learning English or German matters so much, I often tell them: Because literature doesn’t lie. Real novels reveal how a person thinks. But what […]

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