Our advanced translation skills course is for translators who already work between Arabic and English and want to move into legal and specialised work. You train on register, legal and administrative Arabic, sentence restructuring, terminology research, self-revision and ethics, with Dr. Hani Elimam.
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Why Go Advanced
Many translators produce correct text that still reads like a translation. Legal and specialised clients notice: wrong register, calqued structures, inconsistent terms and errors that a second read would have caught.
Legal and administrative Arabic follows conventions that general translation never teaches: fixed openings, formal connectors, the passive of official writing and a vocabulary that courts and ministries expect. English legal drafting has its own habits. Moving between them is a skill you can practise.
Omitted lines, swapped numbers, a negation lost in a long sentence: these rarely come from weak language and almost always from weak checking. A repeatable self-revision routine is often the quickest gain a working translator can make.
This course builds the writing and judgement that legal translation and the MOJ sworn-translator exam both assume. Our separate legal translation and sworn-translator prep courses then cover document types, formats and exam conditions.
What You Will Work On
Each area is worked through your own translations, with line-by-line feedback and a revised version you can compare.
Matching tone to text type and reader: a ministry circular, a board resolution, a patient leaflet and a press release each need a different voice in both languages.
The phrasing of contracts, decisions and official letters: formal openings, conditions and exceptions, obligation and permission, and how to avoid English sentence patterns in Arabic.
Breaking long Arabic sentences joined by و into clear English, and building cohesive Arabic from short English sentences, without losing who does what.
Finding and verifying terms in official legislation, bilingual government sources and parallel texts, and keeping a personal glossary you can trust.
A step-by-step revision routine: completeness, numbers, names and dates, terminology consistency, then readability. Includes checklists and common error patterns.
What to do when the source is unclear or badly drafted: when to keep the ambiguity, when to query the client, and how to add a translator’s note properly.
Confidentiality, fidelity, declining work beyond your competence, conflicts of interest, and where AI tools must not be used with client documents.
How It Works
Send a short note on WhatsApp about your experience, your main direction (Arabic into English or the reverse) and where you want to work next.
You translate a short sample. Dr. Hani Elimam reviews it and identifies which of the seven skill areas need the most work.
We confirm the fee, format and a schedule that fits your working week before you commit.
Each session works on real texts: you translate, revise against the checklist, receive feedback and compare with a model version. You finish with a certificate of completion from SWLT.
Who This Course Is For
Transparent Pricing
Fees, format and dates are confirmed on WhatsApp before you enrol. The SWLT certificate is not a government licence: sworn-translator status is granted by the UAE Ministry of Justice after its own exam.
FAQ
Seven areas: style and register, legal and administrative Arabic, sentence restructuring, terminology research, self-revision and quality checks, handling ambiguous source texts, and translator ethics. All of it is practised on real Arabic and English texts, with feedback on your own translations.
Translators who already work between Arabic and English, paid or in-house, and want to take on legal and specialised texts. It is not a beginner course. If you are just starting, tell us and we will suggest where to begin.
The legal translation course focuses on legal document types: contracts, powers of attorney, judgments and MOJ formatting. This advanced course works on the writing and judgement underneath: register, restructuring, terminology and revision. Many translators take this course first, then the legal course.
It builds skills the exam relies on, especially legal Arabic, accuracy and revision, but it is not exam preparation. For the exam itself, see our sworn-translator certification prep course. No course can promise a pass, and the licence is granted by the Ministry of Justice, not by SWLT.
Yes. We work in both directions, and we weight the practice toward the direction you translate most. Most UAE legal work runs into Arabic, so legal and administrative Arabic gets particular attention.
Dr. Hani Elimam, founder of SWLT. He is an AIIC member, a UAE Ministry of Justice sworn translator, holds a PhD in Language and Management and a Master’s in Interpreting and Translation from the American University of Sharjah, where he was formerly Assistant to Professor in the same programme.
Our translation courses are usually delivered 1-on-1 and live online, which suits translators working across the UAE and the Gulf. Ask on WhatsApp if you need a different arrangement, such as a small group from the same workplace.
Fees and dates are on request. Send us your level and goals on WhatsApp, and we confirm the fee, the format and a schedule before you enrol.
Yes, a certificate of completion issued by SWLT and signed by Dr. Hani Elimam. It records the training you completed. It is not a government licence or an MOJ qualification.
Only where they touch quality and ethics, such as checking consistency or knowing when AI must not see a client document. Tools are taught in depth in our AI and translation technology course.
You May Also Need
Contracts, POAs, judgments and MOJ document standards.
Structured preparation for the UAE MOJ sworn-translator exam.
CAT tools, MTPE and AI-assisted QA for translators.
Credentials and background of SWLT’s founder and trainer.
Tell us on WhatsApp what you translate now and where you want to be. We will review a sample and confirm the fees and dates for the advanced translation skills course.