When Your Words Start Carrying Weight

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”Shakespeare understood what most textbooks don’t: we speak to play roles.And sometimes, saying the […]

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 […]

From the series “The Language That Seems Not to Exist” Author: Tymur Levitin — Founder, Director, and Head Teacher at Levitin Language School / Start Language […]

(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 […]

“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 […]

Choose your language TL;DR: Discourse = language in a real situation (who speaks, to whom, where, why, and with what effect).Discourse analysis = a practical way […]

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. […]

Choose your language: https://levitinlanguageschool.com/#languages In Yan Marti’s song “A Woman Has No Age” there is one line that instantly becomes more than just a rhyme. It […]