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The following article aims to familiarize the reader with the practical dimension of tasks for language mediation in foreign language classes, as well as the difficulties arising from the specifics of mediation. The first chapter introduces the concept of language mediation in the German-language area of glottodidactic research. The second chapter is devoted to the role of linguistic mediation in a multicultural and multilingual world, the comprehensiveness of mediation and the competencies needed for its „Bewältigung”. The third chapter presents specific examples from German language classes with non-philological students.