Context: During a previous youth exchange one participant was doing presentation when he accidently pushed a table and glass fell on ground, breaking into pieces. Immediately we heard 2 different responses of what happened – participant from LT said glass simply broke by felling of the table indicating its no-one’s fault whereas participant from HU said presenter broke glass indicating it’s his fault. Even though we all saw it was accident, participants used different constructions to describe what happened due to influence of their mother tongue. Soon discussion started why we described same event differently, is there more cultural differences due to the way we think and talk in our native languages? Outcomes of discussion surprised – we have many more cultural differences caused by our languages than we thought: -grammatical genders and how we describe things due that -perception of time -perception of direction (either left-right or north-south, east-west?) -connotative meaning of words (bee – hard working and diligent or mean and dangerous?) -culture specific items, words that do not exist in other cultures (who else have cepelinai and how to explain them?) This project addressed common need identified in all participating communities – low level of intercultural awareness, understanding and tolerance: LT (Marijampole) is highly monocultural, no foreigners, what causes problems for youth to broader their worldwide outlook. Once it was time for young people to go to study or work in bigger cities, they were feeling unprepared and not confidence about their self as students from bigger cities. SK (Holic) participants come from small towns and enclosed communities full of stereotypes and fears about foreigners, tourists barely come along, they live in highly monocultural environments. HU (Budapest) and PT participants (different parts of Portugal, described below) live in outskirts of big cities, poor and troubled regions where tourism is hardly visible, foreigners (immigrants) are struggling to integrate due to negative attitude towards them persisting in enclosed communities having low level of intercultural understanding. Achieved goals: Increased intercultural understanding and awareness of 28 participants from 4 countries through our native languages and shared experiences how they shape our cultures and the way we think. Objectives achieved: O1. Increased understanding of 28 participants from 4 countries about how our cultures are different and why we think differently due to our native languages. O2. Participants fostered exchange of experiences and our native language aspects which influence the way we think and may cause cultural misunderstandings. O3. Raised cultural awareness and understanding about 4 participating countries for 28 participants by enriching each other through differences of our native languages. As the result of the project, participants are more aware of the differences in cultures which are caused by their languages what form the perceiving of their environment. They are more open minded towards other cultures and they can foster intercultural dialogue through understanding of language differences. They are prouder about their mother language and it’s origin and are more respectful towards other languages. This knowledge will help participants to integrate to other communities or help the integration of other people.