Europeans need to talk to each other. They need to be able to read newspapers, listen to radio and TV broadcasts and webcasts from other countries in the European Union. They need to be able to understand political discussions in other languages and take part in them. That is the vision. What is the reality? Language skills are insufficient, most Europeans cannot debate in English. Only a few attain a level that comes even close to that of a native English speaker. This needs to change! Language learning has to become much more effective. There are some innovative approaches to tackle the problem. We would like to present one approach which has already been tried in schools under an Erasmus+ project: the Multilingual Accelerator.