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 […]
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(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, […]
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“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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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👉 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 […]
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👉 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 […]
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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 […]
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🔗 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 […]
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