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I Just Want to Be With You — But Not Forever
I Just Want to Be With You — But Not Forever | LEVITIN SCHOOL
Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

I Just Want to Be With You — But Not Forever

Why “Побыть с тобой” Cannot Be Translated — Only Understood Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect One Question That Didn’t Belong — But Stayed One of my students once asked me a question that caught me off guard — not because of the word itself, but because of where it came […]

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• 26.04.2026 • 3 min read
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untranslatable Russian words

A Prayer for Our Parents: Why Some Words Cannot Be Translated | LEVITIN SCHOOL
14.09.2025

A Prayer for Our Parents: Why Some Words Cannot Be Translated

Author’s Column | Tymur Levitin on Language, Meaning and Respect

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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