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Abstract: Language is an organized structure of symbols, which has its own rules. Words that we use in speech according to the laws of the language reflect the process of thinking of a person and the society in general. The system of symbols has a relatively stable structure; language is passed from one generation to the other in written or oral form. It doesn’t belong to any speaker, although every native speaker uses it; language is the product of social cooperation. F.de Saussure in his book “General Linguistics” draws the border between language and speech, which is in the basis of modern linguistics. Language takes part in the process of thinking due to its abilities (sound matter of a word, meaning and structure of a sentence). We can not equal language and thinking. But on the other hand it is wrong to treat language and thinking as form and content, because the process of thinking is not content, but activity, the result of which reveals the content. Language is the unity of form and content.