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Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect © Tymur Levitin — Founder, Director & Lead Teacher of Levitin Language School Speak Free in Tech — Real IT English for Test Automation Experts Automation engineers often say: “I can write tests, but I can’t explain them.”But what if I told you that how you speak about […]

How Intonation Changes Everything in Language Same words. Different meaning. No new vocabulary. No different grammar.Just a change in how you say it — and suddenly, everything shifts. That’s the power of intonation. The Invisible Grammar: Intonation as Structure Most learners think of grammar as: But language has another level — the level of voice, rhythm, and melody.And in […]

How Foreign Words Retain Their Sound — and Why That Matters “If it looks German, it must sound German… right?” Not always.Words like Job, Manager, Chef, or Visum may look like part of the German language — but they didn’t start there. And they don’t always sound the way you’d expect. This is why learners misread them. And why native speakers often […]

Author’s Column by Tymur LevitinLanguage. Identity. Meaning. Practice. Imagine this.A teacher explains a grammar rule. A student listens carefully, then asks:“Why is it like that?”And the teacher, still young and full of knowledge, but not yet full of experience, answers honestly:“Well, that’s just how it is.” The student frowns. That’s not what they were hoping […]

Author’s column by Tymur LevitinFounder and Head Teacher at Levitin Language School🔗 Start Language School by Tymur Levitin How can someone pass B1… but still struggle with A2? Simple: they never truly mastered the basics.They just moved on. This happens more often than most teachers want to admit:A student “graduates” to a higher level, but: Because moving forward ≠ internalizing. […]

Author’s column by Tymur LevitinFounder and Head Teacher at Levitin Language School🔗 Start Language School by Tymur Levitin A word is not just a meaning — it’s a choice You find a word in the dictionary. It looks right.You use it. And something feels… off. The sentence is “correct,” but the meaning — not quite.That’s because a […]

We’re not EdTech. We’re not a platform.We don’t sell dreams. We teach people how to survive — with language.At Start Language School by Tymur Levitin, language is not theory.It’s reaction. Precision. Dignity.It’s the right word at the right moment — when silence is not an option. This school has a human face — and a real […]

The Power of Intonation in German “Er arbeitet nicht zu Hause.” Is that a negation, a correction — or a question?In German, intonation alone can turn the same sentence into a different meaning. Yet most textbooks don’t even mention this. One Sentence. Three Meanings. In German, intonation is grammar. The placement of nicht doesn’t always tell the whole story — the melody of […]

Real English. Real Thinking. Author’s Column by Tymur Levitin, founder of Start Language School by Tymur Levitin and Levitin Language School A Real Question from a Real Lesson One of my students once asked me a simple question: “Is it correct to say: Whose is that bag? Or is it wrong?” She told me her […]

Author’s column by Tymur LevitinFounder and Head Teacher at Levitin Language School🔗 Start Language School by Tymur Levitin 🧭 “Speak only in English from Day One!” — sounds great, right? You’ve heard it before. “Total immersion is the best method!”“No translations allowed!”“You’ll start thinking in English immediately!” This is the promise of so-called full immersion courses — now […]