A Business English course for Arabic-speaking professionals and teams in the UAE. Built around the English your staff use every day: running and joining meetings, writing clear emails and reports, presenting with confidence, and handling legal and administrative English without guesswork.
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Why Business English
Many Arabic-speaking professionals read English well but lose time and confidence when they have to write a firm email, push back in a meeting or present to senior people. The gap is usually about structure, tone and a set of fixed expressions, and those can be trained.
Long sentences joined with "and", formal openings carried over from Arabic letters, and literal translations of Arabic courtesy phrases make English emails longer and less clear. We work on these patterns directly, in both languages.
Interrupting politely, disagreeing without offending, asking for clarification and summarising actions are skills with a fixed set of phrases. Practising them in role plays makes them available under pressure.
Contracts, policies and official letters use words like "shall", "notwithstanding" and "subject to" in specific ways. Staff who understand them read faster and ask better questions. Binding translations remain a job for a certified translator.
Course Modules
The needs assessment shows where your team loses time or confidence. We combine the modules that address it, using your own (anonymised) emails, reports and slides wherever possible.
Opening and chairing a meeting, giving updates, agreeing and disagreeing, asking for clarification, and closing with clear actions and owners.
Subject lines, short paragraphs, the right level of formality, requests and reminders, delivering bad news, and replying to a complaint without escalating it.
Putting the conclusion first, structuring findings and recommendations, writing executive summaries, and editing your own drafts for length and clarity.
Structuring a talk, signposting language, presenting data, handling questions and recovering when you lose a word, with filmed or live practice and feedback.
Reading contracts, policies, circulars and official letters: modal verbs such as "shall" and "may", defined terms, conditions and common Latin and legal phrases.
Setting up calls, checking understanding on a bad line, taking messages and following up in writing after a call.
Terminology for your field, such as banking, healthcare, government services, energy or real estate, drawn from the documents your team handles.
How It Works
Interviews with managers, a participant survey and a skills check. Under confidentiality you can share sample emails or reports so we see real writing, not test answers.
We set learning objectives, choose modules and propose the format and delivery mode. You approve the design, fees and dates before we start.
Meeting simulations, rewriting real emails, short presentations and case studies, with feedback from the trainer and peers. Explanations can be given in Arabic where it helps.
Pre- and post-training assessments, a report for you, an SWLT certificate of completion for participants who complete the programme, and optional follow-up sessions.
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
Meetings, emails, reports and memos, presentations, calls, and legal and administrative English, plus vocabulary for your sector. We choose the modules after a needs assessment, so the course matches what your team actually writes and says.
Arabic-speaking professionals in the UAE who use English at work, from new graduates to senior managers. It suits government and semi-government staff, banking, legal and compliance teams, and anyone who writes or presents in English.
Yes. Our trainers deliver programmes in English and Arabic. For Business English, practice is in English, but grammar points, false friends and the difference between Arabic and English writing habits are often clearer when explained in Arabic.
No. It is workplace English for teams, built around their tasks. We do not prepare candidates for IELTS or other exams, and the course does not lead to an external language certificate.
It can. The legal and administrative English module covers reading contracts, policies and official letters: "shall" and "may", defined terms, conditions and common legal phrases. Understanding a contract is different from translating it; certified translations should go to a licensed legal translation office.
At your premises, at our office or live online. Formats include half-day workshops, full-day intensives, weekly sessions over several weeks and one-to-one coaching for executives.
Yes. Ongoing one-to-one or small-group coaching is one of the formats, with a personal development plan. It suits executives preparing for presentations, board meetings or international roles.
With pre- and post-training assessments, participant feedback and follow-up evaluation. You receive a report after the programme. Participants who complete it receive an SWLT certificate of completion.
Fees and dates are on request, because they depend on group size, the number of sessions and the format. We send a written proposal after the needs assessment.
If translation is part of their job, our In-House Translation Team Training is a better fit: it covers translation skills, glossaries, style guides and review. Business English is about writing and speaking English in your own work.
You May Also Need
All corporate language, communication and cultural programmes.
For staff who translate or interpret as part of their job.
When the text has to be written for you, in English or Arabic.
Certified translation of contracts and official documents.
Tell us on WhatsApp who needs Business English and where they struggle: meetings, emails, reports or presentations. We will run a needs assessment and send a proposal with fees and dates for your Business English course.