Day 13: Our Own Inflation Rate
During a professor's office hour at the university in Göttingen, economics students Niklas (A) and Hannah (B) present their plan for a talk on inflation to Professor Lindner (C).
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a German word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native German, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.
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A
Wir wollen zeigen, dass die seit 2022 stark gestiegenen Preise alle Haushalte gleichermaßen belastet haben.
We want to show that the sharp price rises since 2022 have hit all households equally.
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B
Und zum Schluss erklären wir, wie die von der EZB angehobenen Leitzinsen die Inflation wieder gebremst haben.
And at the end we'll explain how the key interest rates raised by the ECB brought inflation back down.
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C
Moment, gleichermaßen? Sie tun ja so, als ob ein Rentner in Duderstadt denselben Warenkorb hätte wie Sie.
Hang on, equally? You're acting as if a pensioner in Duderstadt had the same basket of goods as you.
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A
Aber die amtliche Inflationsrate bildet doch einen repräsentativen Durchschnittshaushalt ab.
But surely the official inflation rate reflects a representative average household.
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C
Eben, einen Durchschnitt. Berechnen Sie doch mal Ihre persönliche Rate, mit Ihrer eigenen Miete und Ihrem Mensaessen.
Exactly, an average. Why don't you work out your personal rate, with your own rent and your meals in the university canteen?
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B
Da muss ich nicht lange rechnen: Mein WG-Zimmer kostet heute ein Viertel mehr als 2022.
I don't need to do much maths for that: my room in a shared flat costs a quarter more today than in 2022.
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C
Sehen Sie, und genau damit fängt Ihr Referat an, nicht mit dem Durchschnitt.
There you are: that's exactly how your talk should open, not with the average.
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