Among the general, professional and special competences are:
- to know the specificity of communication as a special type of activity;
- to understand the essence of “intercultural communication” and its main types;
- to be able to use various forms of communicative-speech activity (oral, written and extra-linguistic);
- to be able to use the language material in all types of communicative-speech activity;
- to be able to represent one’s country and culture in conditions of a “two-cultures dialogue”.