Forty Pages of Arabic Will Change How Work Goes in Dubai

Small language, large effect

You do not need business Arabic. You need to greet the people you work with correctly, ask how they are, and understand the answer. That is a week's work and it changes the temperature of every interaction afterwards.

Learn Arabic For Your Habibi is forty pages aimed at exactly that level of competence.

What is useful at work specifically

• Greetings with their replies, which is most of what a corridor conversation consists of.
• A work section, covering the everyday professional exchanges.
• Introductions, so meeting someone new does not default to English immediately.
• Numbers, directions, food and the restaurant, for lunches and the rest of an ordinary day.

Nineteen sections in all, in everyday spoken Levantine Arabic — the variety spoken throughout Dubai's Arab community.

Why it fits around a job

There is nothing to schedule. No class, no homework, no app streak. Forty A4 pages in clear transliteration with the pronunciation guide at the front, readable in an evening, and every line marked (m) and (f) so you say the correct form to the specific colleague in front of you.

No script needed to begin. No grammar drills at all.

Order it here

AED 169, free delivery anywhere in the UAE in two to four days. A4 paperback, 40 pages, written by Daria Okhrimenko for complete beginners with no previous Arabic.

Learn Arabic For Your Habibi — the smallest professional investment with the largest social return available in this city.