Note from Suzanne: 
I received an email from a woman wondering what would happen if a loved
one who had passed wanted to communicate with a family member through a
medium but they did not speak the same language as the medium.  I asked this question to Sanaya, and they answered:

What are words, but visualizations of concepts and
feelings.  They are a step in the process
of communication that is unnecessary in the non-physical world.  Once you no longer have a body, you
communicate soul to soul, light to light. 
Some of you do this now.  You know
love when you feel it, as you know fear and other strong feelings.  You know a tree when you see it, without any
need of labeling it as such.  When with
someone who does not speak the same language in the physical world, you can
communicate through pointing at objects, gesturing, and mimicking
emotions.  There is no need for any of this once you can communicate solely through the vibration of thought. 
During a reading it makes no
difference if a spirit speaks a different language than the medium.  The concept, object, or feeling are sent to
the medium as a frequency that the medium’s brain will recognize and “translate”
into words.  It is merely an extra step
to do so.  This is why certain feelings
are common to all of you now.  All souls,
whether here or in the hereafter, know love when they feel it, so spend the day
speaking love, why don’t you?  It is the
universal language.