👉 Choose your language MUST vs HAVE TO vs NEED TO in Business English: Obligation or Necessity? In business communication, obligations and necessities are everywhere: contracts, negotiations, presentations, emails. But English offers several ways to express them — must, have to, need to. At first glance, they seem interchangeable. In reality, each carries a different […]

👉 Choose your language In Business English, tiny words decide big outcomes. Shall is one of those words.Schoolbooks often say shall = will. Real business doesn’t. In contracts, emails, and at the negotiating table, using (or avoiding) shall changes meaning, leverage, and risk. Key takeaways (read this first) 1) What grammar says vs what business […]

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 ✍️ Author’s Column | Tymur LevitinFounder, teacher and translator at Levitin Language School / Start Language School by Tymur Levitin 🧠 Why Students Always Confuse Still and Yet Ask any learner what still and yet mean — and the answer will be: “both mean ‘ще’ (🇺🇦) / ‘ещё’ (📖).”That seems correct […]

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect © Tymur Levitin — Founder, Director and Lead Educator of Levitin Language School & Start Language School by Tymur Levitin “A word is not the thing. And that’s where all the trouble starts.” What Are False Friends? In translation, not every word that looks familiar is your […]

🧠💬 The Assumption We All Grew Up With From childhood, we’ve been told: “Start young — children are language sponges!”Teachers, textbooks, and even scientists have repeated it for decades. But is it true? At Levitin Language School, we don’t follow myths. We follow results.And results show: adults can learn languages just as effectively — and in some […]

“To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.” — Chinese proverb Choose your language Lexicology is not only the study of words but also the study of how different languages create, combine, and transform them. Contrastive lexicology gives us a chance to see languages side by side […]

“Language is the archive of history.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Choose your language Lexicology is the science of words, their meanings, and their functions within a language. When we look at German, we find a language that is both highly structured and deeply cultural. Each word carries not only a grammatical role but also an identity, […]

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect © Tymur Levitin — Founder, Director and Lead Educator of Levitin Language School & Start Language School by Tymur Levitin “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Introduction If you’ve ever tried translating from Ukrainian or Russian into English, […]

💬 Real Language Is Not a List of Rules Most students start with grammar charts. Tenses, structures, exceptions.They memorize. They try to follow the rules. But at Levitin Language School, we believe language is not a system to be memorized.It’s a worldview. And grammar is how that worldview is structured. I never taught grammar as […]