You will find that most of the taxi drivers, local shop owners, cleaners, ironing shop workers, tailors, etc speak very little English. So it helps if you are good at playing charades! If you have an iPhone, you will find a range of free or low-cost translators which you can download and use which will not only show you what you can say using phonetic language, but often the application will speak in the requested language as well.
Settle into living in Al Ain quickly and gracefully