Dubai's economy is regaining it's feet from the previous years of recession. I have read some news about new businesses opening their doors to welcome applicants varying from different fields - a great news for job seekers.
I have been living in Dubai for more than a year and have noticed that the most common available jobs are in the field of hospitality. Obviously because of the fast growth of commercialism in the city and the never ending constructions of new hotels and skyscrapers - therefore it needs manpower. From receptionist to service staff, one important requirement is to must have an excellent English communication skill.
Yes! One can land a job just by having an average or below average English skills. However, I believe everyone is entitled to grow and prosper on their jobs right? Isn't it a great feeling to possess such confidence at your job where you can apply proper English any where and any time.
English is my second language but sometimes I consider it as my primary language because most of the time I feel comfortable expressing and find some of my native dialect hard to use.
Aside from learning at school, I am exposed to English television programs which makes me feel grateful for the Americans for colonizing the Philippines. According to
mapsofworld.com and
wiki.answers.com, Philippines ranked third of the list of countries who speak English.
There are 76.2 million people who speak English in the Philippines. There are 120 to 175 different languages spoken here, many being native tribal languages. Spanish was the official language for a good period of time going back to the Spanish occupation. However, after the United States occupied the country after World War II, English did begin to replace Spanish. A dialogue of one of the native languages of Tagalog was later declared a co-primary language along with English. This language later became known as Filipino. As a result, the total number of English speakers is quite high at 78%. www.omgtoplists.com
I'm not yet confident when I put English into writing and sometimes I lost thought of the right words to use. My English skill isn't excellent neither bad but I'm getting there slowly at a time. Since I started blogging it opened my eyes for what have been broad opportunities of what this important skill can do. I wanted to widen my knowledge in learning proper English and the proper way of writing.
I am so grateful to have been one of the students of
Seonaid MacFarlane at
MacFarlane's English Teaching & Editing Solutions.
MacFarlane is a Business English Trainer/Copyeditor and Freelance with an experience of teaching and diverse workplaces for more than 20 years.
You can see her complete profile on Linkedin
here.
I just finished my first exercise book and find the tools very useful especially business terms. With the right tools such as audio file where I am able to listen before I answer the exercises gives me more advantage to easily understand the topic. Just what I needed for the introduction of Business English. I will try to keep you updated with the progress of the course through my twitter
@findmeabreak.
Anyone interested to take a class in Dubai or in need of editing? You can follow MET on twitter for updates or email her at
seon_macfarlane@hotmail.com
Website will launch pretty soon.
