Первая зарплата

The First Paycheque

A2 · Elementary · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An elementary story about a first job. Artyom is nineteen, broke, and out of excuses — so he answers a notice in a bookshop window. Learn the vocabulary of work the way he does: at the till, with the customers, through one real mistake, and on the day the first envelope arrives.

Read Первая зарплата in Russian

Characters

Artyom (Артём) — The student
Olga Ivanovna (Ольга Ивановна) — The shop manager
Misha (Миша) — The colleague
Mama (Мама) — Artyom's mother

Vocabulary from this story

работа — work
зарплата — pay
объявление — notice
опыт — experience
продавец — shop assistant
директор — manager
касса — till
покупатель — customer
ошибка — mistake
ошибки — mistakes
магазин — shop
неделя — week