Cultural interactions are an essential part of academic life. However, such occasions and opportunities are rare. Hence, it's my personal opinion, that students must grab such opportunities whenever possible. Fortunately, the Department of English of Bhavnagar University, offers such opportunities. Recently, students engaged in two such cultural interactions wherein they got to know about the social, political and linguistic status of two countries, i.e France and Argentina. The first interaction was with professor Saeed Paivandi and Professor Fontanini Christine of the University of Lorraine, France. The students got to know about the system of higher education in France. The professors discussed how the social conditions affect the education system and also the status of literacy rate in France, in the context of higher education. As English literature students, we also inquired about the status of the English language in France. Professor Fontanini also talked about th...