How to pronounce “applied linguistics” in English

So the fact that you have these characters, these people who are these massive language learners, but who were totally ignored by linguisticsor applied linguistics or second language acquisition, even though there are some characters, some very famous hyperpolyglots who were themselveslinguists, was just a huge hole and a huge opportunity for storytelling and actually try to apply a little bit of social scientific rigor to it.