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: […]

Myths, Politics, and Reality (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 “One language, two names — and a whole history in between.” 1. Why […]

Myths and Reality (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🎓 View teacher profile → Tymur Levitin🌍 Choose your language Dedicated to my friend Anatolii —a man with a kind heart, a sharp […]

How Silence Builds Confidence and Real Fluency 🎧 Tymur Levitin Podcast — August 16, 2025 🎙 Video Blog: Tymur Levitin PodcastCategory: Language Learning Insights — Watch All Episodes 🌍 Read in other languages: A pause in language learning is not a mistake.It’s the moment you take to think, choose the right words, and speak them […]

(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 […]

What They Say, How They Feel, and Why It’s Not the Same in Every Language “И я тебя обожаю — а у счастья тоже слёзы солёные…”(Sergey Kurenkov – «Обожаю») Sometimes a man says “Don’t write to me.”And sometimes he says “I’ll steal you from summer and run.”Sometimes he’s silent, sometimes he sings.But the words are […]

Choose your language → https://levitintymur.com/#language There’s a song by Lenny Kravitz called “Again.” But what struck me most was not the melody — it was the word itself. More Than “Once More” The English word again looks simple. Just “once more,” right? But behind it lies a whole world of meanings. In Ukrainian, знов is […]

Author’s Column by Tymur Levitin • Levitin Language School 🔗 Choose your language🔗 Meet the Author “Not everything that touches the soul fits into grammar.And not everything worth saying can be translated.”— Tymur Levitin “Pomolimsya za roditeley” — Let us pray for our parents — is a Russian song that speaks, not to the ear, […]