Speak Arabic.
Open up the Middle East.

Standard Arabic to read, Lebanese and Emirati to speak: a complete method, twenty minutes a day, designed in the field between Abu Dhabi and Beirut.

Soon, you will say مرحبا (Hello), شكراً (Thank you), كيفك؟ (How are you?), تشرّفنا (Nice to meet you), يلّا (Let's go!), أهلاً وسهلاً (Welcome), إن شاء الله (God willing)

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Praetor Orientalis — Learn Arabic to live and work in the Middle East

584pages of courses and exercises

1,519vocabulary words as flashcards

57exercises corrected step by step

120days of guided programme

Two goals, one site

Speaking Arabic, and using it to work in the Middle East.

The student space: an exercise in the document, the contents and the audio

Learn Arabic From the first word to conversation The course and its corrected workbooks, vocabulary flashcards, verbs, the Lebanese and Emirati dialects: every day, you know what to do. Discover the method

An expatriate in the United Arab Emirates, with Emirati colleagues

Move to the Gulf Arabic, then the job A path in six steps to a job in the Emirates, Saudi Arabia or Qatar: CV, interview, negotiation, settling in, and a community of members already there. See the path

How it works

1Create your free accountSeven days to try the first week of the programme, no credit card.
2Twenty minutes a dayThe daily session lines up your words, the lesson and a short listening exercise: you always know what to do.
3Keep everything for lifeOne payment for the complete method, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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Why Praetor Orientalis works

A teaching structure built for independent, efficient learning

A Clear Progression

A logical, well-organised approach inspired by classical methods and adapted to learning Eastern languages.

Two Skills at Once

Standard Arabic (formal) and dialect (spoken) side by side, to truly fit in, in writing and in conversation.

Targeted Vocabulary

1,500 essential words in 29 practical themes, chosen for how often they are really used.

Praetor Orientalis gave me the tools to go from zero to fluent conversations in Arabic in under six months. The structure is flawless.

— Alexandre, expatriate in Dubai

Your guide to Arabic

The creator of the method

About the author

An engineer working for a local company in the United Arab Emirates, I am not a linguist by training but a hands-on practitioner. Arabic was not essential to my job, but I soon saw it as a major strategic advantage to build trust and truly become part of the local environment.

My path was practical and gradual: I started with Lebanese Arabic, taught myself Standard Arabic, discovered the Gulf dialect, and finally took intensive courses (Standard and dialect) at the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo) in Beirut.

Today I would put my level at around B2, with a clear preference for spoken Arabic. This method comes from that real experience: what actually works on the ground, tested and refined between Abu Dhabi and Beirut.

“I don't promise you linguistic perfection, but efficiency and real use of the language: being understood, and able to talk about concrete things.”

— Founder of Praetor Orientalis