An Arabic course for professionals and teams in the UAE who do not speak Arabic. Your staff learn the Arabic they actually meet at work: greetings and courtesy, meetings and phone calls, the layout of official documents, and the basics of Arabic correspondence, in the Emirati and Gulf business context.
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Why Learn Arabic at Work
Arabic is the official language of the UAE, and much of public life runs in it: government letters, signage, forms and many meetings with Emirati counterparts. Staff who can greet, follow the gist and recognise what a document is make a different impression from those who cannot.
Opening a meeting with a correct Arabic greeting, using the right form of address and knowing the expected courtesies signals respect to Emirati and Arab clients and officials. It costs little to learn and is noticed every time.
Many letters, notices, permits and forms in the UAE are issued in Arabic. Staff who can spot the issuing authority, the reference number, the date and the subject line know whether a document is routine or urgent before it sits in a tray for a week.
A hotel front desk, a bank relationship team, a hospital ward and a government contractor need different Arabic. The training-development programmes are customised to your industry, so the vocabulary, role plays and examples come from your daily work.
Course Modules
The needs assessment decides the mix and the starting point. Beginners start with sounds, script and courtesy; staff with some Arabic move faster into documents and correspondence.
Greetings, introductions, thanks and polite refusals, forms of address for colleagues, clients and officials, and the phrases expected at the start and end of a meeting.
Letters and their forms, reading right to left, Arabic numerals and dates, and reading names, job titles, signage and building directories.
Short phrases to open a call, confirm an appointment, ask someone to repeat, and follow the main points of a simple discussion, practised through role plays.
How Arabic government letters, notices, permits and forms are laid out: letterhead, reference, date, subject, salutation and closing, plus recurring administrative terms. For understanding only, not for relying on as a translation.
The standard openings and closings of Arabic letters and emails, how to acknowledge receipt or request information, and when a message should go to a professional translator instead.
Common Gulf expressions you will hear alongside Modern Standard Arabic, plus the etiquette around hospitality, religious occasions, Ramadan working hours and addressing senior people.
A word bank for your sector, such as banking, healthcare, hospitality, real estate or government services, built from the situations your staff described in the assessment.
How It Works
We talk to the team lead, survey participants and check their current Arabic, then map the situations where they need it: clients, officials, documents or colleagues.
We propose the modules, learning objectives, format and delivery mode. You review and approve the design, fees and dates before training starts.
Sessions balance instruction with practice: role plays, real document samples and short exercises with feedback from the trainer and peers.
Pre- and post-training assessments show progress, you receive a report, participants who complete the programme receive an SWLT certificate of completion, and follow-up sessions are available.
Who This Course Is For
Transparent Pricing
Fees and dates depend on group size, format and the number of sessions, and are confirmed in a written proposal. The minimum engagement is a single half-day workshop.
FAQ
The Arabic your staff use at work: greetings and courtesy, short exchanges in meetings and calls, reading the script, the layout of official letters and forms, correspondence basics and the Emirati business context. The exact mix comes from a needs assessment of your team.
It can be. We check each participant’s Arabic during the needs assessment. Beginners start with sounds, script and courtesy phrases; staff with some Arabic move on to documents and correspondence. Mixed levels can be split into separate cohorts.
Documents and correspondence use Modern Standard Arabic, so that is the base for reading and writing. For speaking, we include the Gulf expressions your staff are likely to hear at work. The balance depends on whether your team mainly reads documents or mainly talks to people.
They will learn to recognise what a document is, who issued it, its date, reference and subject, and recurring administrative terms. That is for understanding. Documents you submit to courts, ministries or other authorities still need a certified legal translation.
At your premises, at our office or in live online sessions. Teams in several locations can combine in-person and online participation.
Half-day workshops, full-day intensives, weekly sessions over several weeks, and one-to-one or small-group coaching. For language learning, weekly sessions over several weeks usually work better than a single long day, because people need practice between sessions.
We recommend 8 to 15 participants for interactive sessions, so everyone gets speaking time. Larger teams are trained in several cohorts.
Yes. Participants who complete the programme receive a certificate of completion from SWLT showing the programme content, duration and completion date. It is a training certificate, not an external language qualification.
Fees and dates are on request. They depend on group size, the number of sessions and the format. After the needs assessment we send a written proposal.
No. This course is for people learning Arabic for their own work. If your staff already translate or interpret as part of their job, our In-House Translation Team Training covers translation skills, glossaries, style guides and review.
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All corporate language, communication and cultural programmes.
For staff who already translate or interpret on the job.
Certified translation when an Arabic document has to be relied on.
Professional interpreters for meetings where accuracy matters.
Tell us on WhatsApp who needs Arabic, their current level and where they use it. We will run a needs assessment and send a proposal with fees and dates for your Arabic course for professionals.