The manual examines the main characteristics of the humanitarian educational environment and the place of the language component in it. The main attention is paid to the problems of the current state of the Russian language and Russian speech, the characteristics of the modern linguistic personality, and current issues of speech culture. The manual contains a large number of practical tasks aimed at improving language and communicative competencies. For students and undergraduates in the humanities, as well as those undergoing special training in the field of humanitarian technologies.