How to pronounce“pretending”in English

the time there is the understanding in the kremlin that the the pretending of being democracy is

But in, when I was making Superbad I was a 20-something-year-old pretending, going back to high school again, so I got to use a lot of the experiences that I did to pretend to

be a high school student while making Superbad in 21 Jump Street as a 25-year-old pretending to be a high school student again.