Language coach Hadar Shemesh walks through a shadowing exercise using a Breaking Bad line. The focus is on "goes belly up," an idiom meaning a business fails, and the three-syllable word "disappears," broken down as de-sa-pears and drilled for precise pronunciation.
So notice how he articulates every single sound here.
When people want to explain something to other people, a business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up.
Big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ. So again, a business— do it with me— big enough that it could be listed, that it could be, that it could be, that it could be, that it could be listed on the NASDAQ. On the stock market, on the NASDAQ, goes belly up. Goes belly up. Belly up is fails or disappears. It's like a very informal idiom. Let's listen to it again. I'm going to play it, you're going to repeat it.
A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears.
Disappears. One word, 3 syllables, 3 notes. De-sa-pears. Disappears.
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