This forum examines issues of intercultural competence and language education, discussing the extent to which language courses provide students with intercultural competence and the extent to which intercultural competence and language skills are, or should be, linked. With language education in the West in inarguable decline, the authors face the question of how to continue to develop globally, necessitating an interrogation of the importance of language proficiency to developing an interculturally competent citizenry.