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Uh... is that how you think people understand non-native languages? 'Cause it's not.

If you are still at the point of translating in your head, you are not a competent fluent listener. Someone who is fully competent in Latin won't do that.

Some folks who have spoken a 2nd language for years, report they still sometimes translate in their head. The flat remark is not helpful.

Second language speakers do not translate words in their head. (In fact, if asked to do so, I often have trouble rendering English sentences in my native tongue, even though I understand them just fine.)

Doesn't unmediated in the context of the text mean without first translating into your native tongue?. If you need to translate it to any other language first, that to me means that it is mediated.

Exactly. And if that's happening in your head, learning to speak latin isn't changing the mediation.