This study employs the Cultural Linguistics framework based on the schemas of event, emotion, image, role and proposition (Sharifian, Embodiment via body parts. John Benjamins Publishing, 2011a) to describe how Cultural Conceptualisations are shaped in the available lexicon of EFL learners from sixth grade Primary and tenth grade of Secondary Education. The objective was to determine whether (1) sixth and tenth graders generate cultural words in response to ‘culture’, and if so, (2) get insights into how learners conceptualise words related to culture; and (3) ascertain whether the L1 and the source, target and international cultures influence learners’ word responses. AntConc was used in order to identify the number of types, as well as the frequency ranks of the cultural words generated by our informants. The results indicate that image schemas were present in older learners’ responses. On the contrary, sixth graders retrieved words which belonged to the schema of events and were influenced by traditions and celebrations from the source culture though they also include some references to the target and international cultures. Finally, tenth graders produced abstract words which do not seem to be linked to any specific culture. Our study brings novel insights into how EFL learners conceptualise the semantic category of culture.