The article considers the suggestive method as one of the intensive methods of teaching foreign languages and a means of developing linguistic and communicative competence of students. The method under consideration is based on suggestion therapy, characterized by the disclosure of memory capabilities, increased intellectual and creative activity of students, positive emotional experience and lack of fatigue. Much attention is paid to the connection of teaching with the personal interests and motives of students. In our opinion, the suggestive method of teaching foreign languages is able to solve a number of pedagogical tasks more successfully than any other method, for example, teaching oral forms of communication, increasing motivation to learn, eliminating psychological barriers, etc.