【正文】 from animals because it is far more sophisticated than any animal munication syatem.. The relationship of language and cultureAs the carrier of culture, language reflects and originates from it.Generally, the structure of a language should have some cultural features and obey some rules of language usage. Nida, a famous translator, said that the role of language within a culture and influence of the culture on the meanings of words and idioms are so pervasive that scarcely any text can be adequately understood without carefully consideration of its cultural background. Prof. 陳光雷（1992:119） also said when teaching and learning a language, we should take culture into consideration. As we know, some words are called culturally loaded words, which carry deep cultural message. Such as “castle”, a typical culturally loaded word carries the cultural and historical message. Castle is a particular kind of architecture in ancient Europe, especially in Britain, which was invaded by others frequently at that time. Therefore, the meaning of castle has beyond itself, it loaded the history of invasion and can reflect the character of Englishmen as well, for there is a saying that “an Englishman’s house is his castle”. Actually, the military base in the past, or the house now, no matter what the castle refers to, they have something in mon that it is principally the private residence of its owners and no one can enter without permission. Language is a particular ponent of culture（孫勉志，1997:334）. Firstly, language penetrates into every level of culture and the linguistic system interpenetrates all other system within culture. Secondly, language is the most important means by which culture is transmitted, such as music, drawing, yet on other system are so prehensive and powerful as language. Furthermore, language is also the most important medium through which culture can actively transmitted. Last but not least, “l(fā)anguage is a great force of socialization. It is largely through language socialization that an individual will acquire the culture of the people he or she lives with.Culture is the base of languageThe American humanist Spair convey his opinions in On Culture that language owns its base. That is to say, group of people ing from one or several ethnic groups speak the same language. Thus this language can pass down from generation to generation. And meanwhile, it is also the reflection of the totally culture of their life and customs（戴煒棟2002:97）. With the view that language is a particular part of culture, culture is the base of language, we can see language can never be free from its cultural background, and there is no natural language that can be used as a pure international language. Therefore, learning a language naturally involves learning its culture. 3. The influence of culture on language learningIn the past days of English teaching and learning, we have realized influence of native language on the English language learning and teaching, but we have not realized the influence of culture factors on English language learning. For a long time we only laid stress on grammar and developed pure language skills, but did not pay attention to cultural consciousness. Therefore, we can not understand the reading and listening materials properly because of culture difference, even we cannot speak and write in a proper way. Generally, foreigners can put up with our grammar mistakes and pronunciation mistakes, but they always take our mistakes about culture to heart, because they think the mistakes we make cannot be in keeping with their customs and traditions, and they cannot accept those mistakes.The following parts are the influence of culture on language learning.. Culture in semanticsThe culture in semantics refer to the cultural connotation, which is reflected by language loaded in the semantic system.Words as the primary element of a kind of language are the pillar of the linguistic system. And we can find in them the greatest and biggest cultural differences from our mother tongue（廖道勝, 2001, ）.Words in both the Chinese and English have their most distinctive cultural meaning. But there are also many dissimilar phenomenon of word meaning in Chinese and English. Each kind of language has its own unique linguistic system and linguistic constriction. Each nation has its own ways of living, thinking, behavior, and the different orientation of values. The expert in British literature and the professor of Oxford University Wang Zuoliang (王佐良, 1979, ) said like this “A single word has not only direct and literal meaning in dictionary, but also has the affective meaning, connotative meaning and other many associative meanings.” So people with different cultural backgrounds always have the different understanding to a single word. 但是非本地居民在缺少文化背景的情況下，是不容易與他人成功交流的。 language。換句話說(shuō)，語(yǔ)言和文化密切相關(guān).............................................................................................................................................................。 culture內(nèi)容摘要：我們學(xué)習(xí)語(yǔ)言是為了和別人交流。The Significance of learning Culture in Foreign Language LearningThe Thesis for Obtaining BA from SchoolOf Foreign Language and Literature, XFUByZhu ChangSupervisedByA/Prof. Liu Xia June 2, 2013IVSignatureThe thesis “The Significance of Learning Culture in Foreign Language Learning” by Zhu Chang was reviewed and approved by A/Prof. Liu Xia on June 2013,.Supervisor________________(Signature)Abstract: We learn language to municate with other people. However, it is not easy for nonnative speakers to get a successful munication without necessary cultural background. In other words, language has a close connection with culture.………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Key words: munication。 language。但是非本地居民在缺少文化背景的情況下，是不容易與他人成功交流的。關(guān)鍵詞: 交流；語(yǔ)言；文化 AcknowledgementsThe paper was ple