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The article deals with the issues related to analyzing the role of intercultural competence in teaching foreign languages. When language skills and intercultural competency become linked in a language classroom, students become optimally prepared for participation in a global world. This article reviews and summarizes the views on intercultural competence and intercultural communicative competence in order to better understand how these notions can impact the cultural component of a foreign language curriculum. Issues on intercultural competence underline the significance of preparing students to engage and collaborate in a global society by discovering appropriate ways to interact with people from other cultures.