First, I agree that to learn the language of the country where you live is a great idea... but...
- as you might know, the turnover of expats in GCC countries is extremely high.. you never know whether or not you will be here in 1 week or 1 month... while it is essential to learn the language for those who is immigrating into the new country, it becomes quite questionable for the employees on 1-2 year contract.
- how did you notice, that they "really don’t have the desire learn Arabic"? Guess what, they DO have a desire. They don't have (a) time, and (b)most important, the facilities for it. Do you know at least one serious professional place, which offers arabic, keeping in mind extremely busy schedule of the expats? I learned my arabic from my hub... but not everyone as lucky as I am...
- if "the first requirement" was "to be able to write/speak/understand the language of the host country", then no one brit or american, no one indian or filipino would be here.. and then WHAT?
First, I agree that to learn the language of the country where you live is a great idea... but...
- as you might know, the turnover of expats in GCC countries is extremely high.. you never know whether or not you will be here in 1 week or 1 month... while it is essential to learn the language for those who is immigrating into the new country, it becomes quite questionable for the employees on 1-2 year contract.
- how did you notice, that they "really don’t have the desire learn Arabic"? Guess what, they DO have a desire. They don't have (a) time, and (b)most important, the facilities for it. Do you know at least one serious professional place, which offers arabic, keeping in mind extremely busy schedule of the expats? I learned my arabic from my hub... but not everyone as lucky as I am...
- if "the first requirement" was "to be able to write/speak/understand the language of the host country", then no one brit or american, no one indian or filipino would be here.. and then WHAT?