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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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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Even Scarier than we thought”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: expensive, rbi, rate, inflation, milk. Questo video contiene 65 frasi e 824 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:32. Chi parla va veloce, circa 182 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| inflation sostantivo | /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/ | inflazione |
| festive aggettivo | /ˈfɛstɪv/ | festivo, festiva |
| household aggettivo | /ˈhaʊshoʊld/ | domestico, casalinghi |
| hike sostantivo | /haɪk/ | camminata, passeggiata |
| suck verbo | /sʌk/ | succhiare, suggere |
| corn sostantivo | /ˈkɔːn/ | grano |
| cow sostantivo | /kaʊ/ | vacca, mucca |
| expectation sostantivo | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | attesa |
| float verbo | /fləʊt/ | galleggiare |
| rainfall sostantivo | acquazzone, rovescio | |
| pinch verbo | /pɪnt͡ʃ/ | pizzicare |
| egg sostantivo | /ɛɡ/ | uovo |
| alongside | /əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/ | a fianco, congiuntamente |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | paragonare |
| protest sostantivo | /ˈpɹoʊ.tɛst/ | protesta |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| go up verbo | salire |
| pop up verbo | spuntare, saltare fuori |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | You've probably missed · has happened · has changed |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | experiencing which is · cows which has · people who take |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is calibrated · has been diverted |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 8 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come can't, they're, you've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, derivative /dɪˈɹɪvətɪv/, liquidity /lɪkˈwɪdəti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: household /ˈhaʊshoʊld/, hike /haɪk/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: festive /ˈfɛstɪv/, household /ˈhaʊshoʊld/, hike /haɪk/, suck /sʌk/, float /fləʊt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/, calibrate /ˈkæl.ɪ.bɹeɪ̯t/, jaggery /ˈd͡ʒæɡəɹi/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come inflation, festive, household.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.