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You've probably missed this number in the news, but the RBI survey of households expects inflation to be at 10 % for the next one year.
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This is what has happened.
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The RBI surveys about 6 ,000 people across 19 cities in the month of September
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and their median expectation is that the next one year inflation will be at 10 % for households.
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Now compare that to the actual number right now, the consumer price inflation according to the RBI is a 4 .8 %
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and the RBI's expectation is that it will do up to 6%.
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Big difference from the 10 % that we are seeing from this survey.
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This is what families are experiencing which is different from the RBI's calculation and they're thinking about groceries, about milk, about transport,
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about the money left over at the end of the month
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and for a family that has to spend most of its income on food, this will really pinch.
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Now, it's also pinching the RBI because alongside this survey, the RBI has changed a major direction.
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Remember yesterday, the RBI raised interest rates by a quarter of a percent for the first time in three years
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and eight months.
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And it also said that this is calibrated tightening, which in simple English means that it believes
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that inflation has gone up a lot
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and they're going to over the next several months keep increasing the rates to keep
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that inflation under control
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so this is not the only interest rate hike
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there will be others where is the inflation pressure coming from
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first of all obviously the war in first day in west asia is adding energy pressure
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so that means petrol diesel lpg cng becomes more expensive everything
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that comes to your city on the back of a truck whether it's vegetables or milk
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or any other consumer will become more expensive anything that's made in a factory will become more expensive fertilizer
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which also gets imported and brought in will become more expensive
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because of the pressure on shipping second problem india is facing this year rainfall
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because of that el nino effect poor rains have affected crops they've affected animal fodder
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which means there's pressure on both your petrol tank
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and your food the second very big problem sugarcane
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and corn are suffering because of ethanol production sugarcane has been diverted to ethanol
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and so sugar prices jaggery prices every derivative
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or product made using sugar think of the festive season including biscuits
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and cakes and everything else
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that you buy has become more expensive the other problem is corn
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or maize diverted for ethanol is used as fodder for poultry
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which has made chicken
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and eggs more expensive it's also fodder for cows that's made milk more expensive
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and for dairy farmers it's not just a maize
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but also the drought that we're expecting in many of our states mean there's not enough water
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or food to feed the cows which has made milk paneer butter curd everything
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that comes out of milk also more expensive
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so now think about your festive season and consider the fact
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that sugar milk ghee energy delivery everything is going to become more expensive in the coming months add to
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that the rbi's interest rate hike
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now for floating rate borrowers who have a floating rate home loan your home loan emis will go up immediately
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it will suck up all of the extra room
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you have in your household budget for people who take small
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loans to sort of tide off the end of the month
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that is also going to become more expensive and
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that is going to hurt more you can't fix poor rainfall you can't fix expensive oil
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but what the rbi is going to do is hike interest
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rates to suck up all the extra liquidity in our market what does this mean it means
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that business loans will become more expensive it is going to be more expensive to actually run a business
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and more expensive to buy anything big.
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So most families will say fridge abhi ne karete agle saal karete.
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So they will put off a lot of their things that they would buy this festive season for next festive season.
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That will then actually cut the knees off our consumer budgets which means businesses that depend on people spending money.
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You know for example soap, shampoo, fridges, white goods all of the things
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that you expect to sell in the festive season is going to take a hit.
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And that is going to hurt not just the economy, not just household budgets is going to hurt all of us.
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It's a number that has popped up today in the news.
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And there's a lot of noise around protests.
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And that's an important thing.
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But this is also something to pay attention to.
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Leave your comment in the comment section
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if you've seen something else become more expensive that I have not mentioned in this video.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Even Scarier than we thought”. Las palabras que más se repiten: expensive, rbi, rate, inflation, milk. Este vídeo tiene 65 frases y 824 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:32. El hablante habla rápido, unas 182 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
inflation sustantivo/ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/inflación
household adjetivo/ˈhaʊshoʊld/casero, hogareño
hike sustantivo/haɪk/caminata
suck verbo/sʌk/chupar, sorber
corn sustantivo/ˈkɔːn/cereal, grano
cow sustantivo/kaʊ/vaca
expectation sustantivo/ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/expectación
float verbo/fləʊt/flotar
rainfall sustantivocantidad pluvial, cuantía lluvial
pinch verbo/pɪnt͡ʃ/pellizcar, repizcar
egg sustantivo/ɛɡ/huevo, aguautle
alongside/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/yunto/juntamente/junto con
compare verbo/kəmˈpɛɚ/comparar, parangonar
protest sustantivo/ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/protesta, estriladera
suffer verbo/ˈsʌfɚ/sufrir, penar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go up verbosubir
pop up verboaparecerse
put off verboperecear

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraYou've probably missed · has happened · has changed
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosaexperiencing which is · cows which has · people who take
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo haceis calibrated · has been diverted

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 8 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, they're, you've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, derivative /dɪˈɹɪvətɪv/, liquidity /lɪkˈwɪdəti/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: festive /ˈfɛstɪv/, vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, derivative /dɪˈɹɪvətɪv/, divert /daɪˈvɝt/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: groceries /ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹiz/, maize /meɪz/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: vegetable /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/, jaggery /ˈd͡ʒæɡəɹi/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como inflation, household, hike.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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