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This research paper attempts to have an ecological analysis on the relationship between the learning of language and the understanding of culture among Chinese college EFL learners. As an analytical research paper, it employs mainly three research methods including method of theoretical analysis, ecological analysis and comparative analysis to acquire a full understanding of the relationship between language and culture among Chinese college EFL learners from an ecological view. Through understanding the process from language learning to culture understanding, the author thus tries to show an ecological view of how the learning of language matters with the understanding of culture as well as the ecological significance reflected by the interaction between language learning and culture understanding among Chinese college EFL learners. With the help of an ecological view, this research paper also makes efforts to show how language learning, which is deeply rooted by the ecology of a natural environment, a humanistic community, a country and even a nation, promotes the development of culture understanding. Thus it is fully analyzed and concluded that there is a very close relationship between language learning and culture understanding, which is also an inseparable relationship. Overall, this research paper also interprets that language is not just a tool or carrier of culture. In fact, language is not only a cultural phenomenon, but also a living fossil of history and culture of a country and a nation as well as a special and comprehensive cultural combination and aggregation. An ecological analysis from language learning to culture understanding among Chinese college EFL learners will definitely help to comprehend such a fact that, on the one hand, language plays an irreplaceable role in cultural construction, inheritance, and communication between different cultures; on the other hand, different cultural characteristics often lead to different language characteristics.