In this article we set out to develop the understanding of some concepts vs. intercultural communication, at the same time, to argue the importance of assuming these concepts-landmarks in the formation of intercultural skills in order to ensure intercultural dialogue. Intercultural communication involves dialogue, interaction, interference of ideas, putting into effect multiple instruments of assessment, comparison, validation or invalidation and being based even on a transfer of identitary paradigms. Only with his skills and interculturality in his baggage, will the educable be able to face the challenges of diversity. During the process of intercultural communication, the cultural identity is subjected to a series of pressures, influences or variables, like the communicative intention, the individual identitary patterns, the accents of identitary intensity, the profile and number of actors or the substance of the communicative process.