Do you want to learn business Arabic? Do you struggle to talk to your clients and colleagues? Do you wish to understand Arabic business culture and etiquette?
Are you terrified to give business presentations in Arabic? You can solve all of your troubles by learning how to speak, converse and write in business Arabic. Business Arabic is not very different from Standard Arabic, it’s just a disparity of environment and there are certain rules, customs, and etiquette that you need to follow in the Arab business world. In this blog, we are going to look at ways you can learn Arabic for specific purposes such as business. But, before that let’s look at what business Arabic is, what are its advantages, and where it is applicable.
The Arabic language is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and in recent years it has gained a lot of attention. Well, learning Arabic is not a very easy task but it is also not impossible to learn Arabic. As a beginner, you will be told to learn Standard Arabic or MSA, also known as Fusha. This is the language that is taught mostly in schools and is used in newspapers, TV channels, etc. But not a lot of people use MSA to communicate daily. Nobody speaks MSA natively, but nearly every Arabic speaker can understand it from school lessons.
Instead, today speakers of Arabic grow up using a local variety, which belongs to a set of language varieties known as “Arabic dialects.”