Vocabulary

Jobs

In this lesson you'll learn some jobs in Russian. Look and listen:

директор  = a manager, a director

секретарь = a secretary

инженер = an engineer

учитель = a teacher

врач = a doctor

медсестра = a nurse

продавец = a shop assistant, a store clerk

программист =  a programmer

You can get this lesson's flashards here.

Notes:

1) To ask someone what their job is, you would usually say "Кем вы работаете?" (formal) or "Кем ты работаешь?" (informal).

2) To talk about your job, you can just say, for example,  "Я  программист" (I'm a programmer). You don't need a verb. There's also another way of saying what your job is, but as it's a bit more complicated,  we'll talk about it next time!