The paper considers the content and the ratio of the concepts of competence, competence, competence. The peculiarities of the linguistic of students of technical universities in Ukraine are analyzed. The analysis of the basic concept competence shows that it is treated in two ways: as a given rule, a requirement for specialist training and considered as the prevailing quality, the result of the learning activity of the student. Linguistic is assimilation, comprehension of language norms that have developed historically in phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, semantics, stylistics, and adequate use of them in a specific language. Speech and linguistic competences are inseparable because the ability to speak (speech competence) is based on grammatical, lexical and phonetic knowledge and skills (linguistic competence). The structure of linguistic includes phonological, lexical, grammatical, and spelling competences. The levels of linguistic (low, medium and high) are defined. The low level is characterized by mastery of basic language skills, grammar and general professional vocabulary. The middle level is characterized by the ability to produce professionally oriented language material, the high level corresponds to ability of using specific lexical units in dialogue and monologue speech on professional topics. It is revealed that the effectiveness of the mechanism of the formation of autonomous Ukrainian speech depends on how well students distinguish language means in Russian and Ukrainian languages, how they differentiate the two language systems. In addition, the efficiency of developing skills to communicate in the Ukrainian language depends on the language environment in which the young people are placed (at home, at school and out of it).