Imagine you meet a tourist who needs to find their way somewhere or who wants to ask your friend where they got their cool backpack, but your friend doesn't speak English! Imagine an English-speaking visitor sees the statue of Pestalozzie and wants to know what is written on the sign! Imagine you watched a really interesting video about the Castle of Chillon in French and want to tell a visitor about it in English! Imagine that you are so proud that Nemo won the Eurovision contest and you want to put together something to share with your friends in the US, but a lot of info on them is in German - so you have to take notes and summarize! Those are just SOME of the examples of where we mediate language!

Keep in mind that mediation is not translating!