In order to understand intelligences and preferences of cross cultural learning students, this paper tries to build an interpretation approach which combines the theory of multiple intelligence developed by Gardner (1983) and the concept of culture proposed by Jaeger and Liebsch (2004). The issue of German environmental protection culture of recycling had been discussed in the classroom of the lecture of German Culture. This paper has surveyed 47 university students who took the course of German Culture, and the following are the results of the cross analysis: The first three major multiple intelligences for the surveyed students are linguistic intelligence (19.1%), spatial intelligence (16.3%), and existential intelligence (14.9%), for which nearly half (50.3%) of the surveyed students showed their preferences. The first three major cross-cultural dimensions for the surveyed students are behavior (28.4%), identification (24.8%), and value (22.7%), for which almost three -fourths (75.9%) of the surveyed students showed their preferences.