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Author’s Column by Tymur Levitin — Founder & Director of Levitin Language School / Start Language School by Tymur LevitinGlobal Learning. Personal Approach. There comes a moment when your words stop being just sounds. They start carrying weight. You don’t speak to impress.You speak because you are ready to stand behind what you say. Real […]

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”Shakespeare understood what most textbooks don’t: we speak to play roles.And sometimes, saying the wrong line can cost you more than a grade — it can cost you your safety, your dignity, or even your life. I’m not here to dramatize. I’m here […]

Author’s Column by Tymur Levitin Founder and Director of Levitin Language School | Start Language School by Tymur LevitinGlobal Learning. Personal Approach. 🌍 Choose your language 🔗 https://levitintymur.com/#languages Explore our language pages: 📘 Learn English Online🇩🇪 Learn German Online🇪🇸 Learn Spanish Online🇺🇦 Learn Ukrainian Online Read this article in other languages: 🇺🇦 Ukrainian version🇷🇺 Russian […]

From the series “The Language That Seems Not to Exist” Author: Tymur Levitin — Founder, Director, and Head Teacher at Levitin Language School / Start Language School by Tymur Levitin🎓 Teacher’s page → Tymur Levitin🌍 Choose your language 1) What we’re really talking about (and why it matters) The form you’ll meet varies by language: […]

(Based on the song “Ведь нет другой такой” by Mikhail Shufutinsky, 2016) Introduction There are songs where a single line becomes destiny.In Mikhail Shufutinsky’s «Ведь нет другой такой», the line that defines the entire composition is: «К счастью привыкнуть нельзя.»You cannot grow accustomed to happiness. This thought works on three levels: When sung by Shufutinsky, […]

“Не пишите мне писем, дорогая графиня…”— sung under guitars in courtyards, passed across generations First Encounter: Why This Song Matters I was fifteen, the youngest in a group where the oldest was forty-one.Someone played this under a guitar. Not a concert, a life. And I didn’t hear the ceremonial “не хочу умирать” (I don’t want […]

Choose your language TL;DR: Discourse = language in a real situation (who speaks, to whom, where, why, and with what effect).Discourse analysis = a practical way to unpack how meaning is created beyond words: intention, tone, roles, background knowledge, power, setting—everything that makes the same sentence mean different things. A one-minute story You tell a […]

Read this article in other languages: «Здесь лапы у елей дрожат на весу…»“Here the fir branches tremble, hanging in the air…” The words remain the same. But listen closely — and it is already a different song.Because it is not the words that sing. It is the voice. Introduction Vladimir Vysotsky never “performed” songs. He […]

Choose your language: https://levitintymur.com/#languages In Yan Marti’s song “A Woman Has No Age” there is one line that instantly becomes more than just a rhyme. It is a concentrated expression of experience, cultural code, and a man’s philosophy of love: A woman has no age when she is beloved. Behind this phrase lies not only […]