Corrections in red.  Stylistics in blue.

Dear Diary.

Currently we are in talks with a foreign contractor. I was involved in translating. The other party was Arab, so our talks in English were a kind of "broken telephone" game. I desperately tried to understand his accent. Fortunately, I was given enough time.
There was nothing to do but hope that both parties used the same words for the same things, and understood each other.