The article analyzes the fact that the creation of society, which is the fruit of social relations, saved people from primitive times, and that the creation of society played an important role in the strengthening of the position of communication in people's lifestyle, the emergence of the need for transportation and its further development.

The article considers the problems various methods of teaching foreign languages in universities. Particular attention was paid to the following methods: direct method, grammar-translation, audiovisual, audiolingual and communicative. According to the author modern teaching methods involve the use of such a system of methods, which is aimed not at the presentation of ready-made knowledge by the teacher and their reproduction, but at the independent mastery of knowledge by the trainees in the process of active cognitive activity