English Language Fellow Mathilde Verillaud introduced the idea of teaching American culture by using what students already know: their own culture. Using pictograms inspired by Liang Liu’ s work on the cultural differences between East and West, Verillaud demonstrated that students can compare, infer and eventually guess American cultural concepts through a process in which they describe their own cultural concepts. Teachers were extremely engaged. They laughed, debated, agreed and disagreed in a very lively discussion and were eager to include more cultural concepts in their classes.