Dubai Business

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Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:05:54 +0000

it’s required up until year 9 (end of middle school) / throughout all the years at government schools (but the people that go to these tend to be local / arab scpeaking anyway). Or used to be anyway - last year they passed a decree saying it’s mandatory for everyone now but it’ll take a few years to fully implement I guess. I just have very basic skills ( ie, how do you get to _? my name is _ etc) which I’ve mostly forgotten. I can read/write it but not understand, meh. I might try to brush it up in my senior year actually.
speak arabic - all that i’d use is slang in everyday talk - everyone speaks english here. add to that the cosmopolitan-ness (is that a word?) of the place (only some 20% of peopel in the country are uae nationals(who tend to live in a neighbouring city anyway); the rest are expats.