The paper considers developing the intercultural competence (ICC) for students learning the foreign language and introduction to intercultural communication. Here are considered the advantages of the educational process with the use of horizontal interdisciplinary links and intercultural training as a method of ICC development. The paper analyzes stages of intercultural knowledge actualization in a foreign language class on the following topics: the concept of culture in intercultural communication, categorization of cultures, values, cultural identity, ethnocentrism, virtual intercultural communication.