Working languages

Nine languages, and we are honest about which ones are our core

English–Arabic is what we do best and what most of our work is. The rest are genuinely staffed, not brokered out the moment you ask.

Arabic

العربية

Core

English

Core

French

Français

Spanish

Español

Hindi

हिन्दी

Swahili

Kiswahili

Rare pair

Filipino

Rare pair

Vietnamese

Tiếng Việt

Rare pair

English ⇄ Arabic

Our Chief Executive holds a doctorate in English–Arabic translation and interpreting, and final linguistic authority on this pair rests with her personally. We work across Modern Standard Arabic and the Gulf register, and we treat the difference as material — a document written for a federal ministry does not read like one written for a commercial counterparty, and rendering both in the same flat register is a failure that is easy to miss and expensive to explain.

The rare pairs

Swahili, Filipino and Vietnamese into and out of Arabic are staffed here. Almost no firm in the Emirates staffs them, which is why they are usually brokered onward at a markup, with nobody in the chain able to check the result. We would rather hold that capability than pass your file to a stranger and hope.

If your language is not listed, ask anyway. We will either source it properly or tell you we cannot — we will not take the work and improvise.