The concept of “New Liberal Arts” has attracted widespread attention since it was specified by the Ministry of Education in 2018 as a part of the “four-new” construction. Various disciplines of humanities and social sciences have re-examined the new propositions and tried to make responses from the perspective of talent cultivation and discipline construction. As a discipline spanning humanities and social sciences, the foreign languages are no exception. From “new foreign languages” to “big foreign languages”, many experts have put forward their opinions on the new mission of the foreign language discipline in the new era. In this paper, we try to interpret the concept of “New Liberal Arts” and offer our thoughts on the new challenges to the foreign language discipline as well as our possible responses.