In foreign language teaching, language and culture are often addressed separately. This paper looks for possible concepts to integrate the training of linguistic competences with the strengthening of intercultural competence in Chinese language instruction. In 2018, the author instructed German university students to produce videos in Chinese as part of an intermediate level language course. By staging a critical incident that develops between a German and a Chinese student in China, one of those videos addresses different cultural concepts of nature. This video serves as an example to illustrate how the storyline method may be used to promote intercultural communicative competence and to argue why the ‘intercultural speaker’ should be implemented as a role model in Chinese teaching.