How to pronounce “chordate” in English

And among those groups are the chordates which go on to become the vertebrates, or at least that includes the group that

And they're divided, these chordates, into five classes-- the mammals, the birds, the fish, the reptiles, and the amphibians.

And Alan has type examples of sort of everything within these five major classes of chordates.

So I think chordate are where humans are right, am I right the chordate are spine and then all these other, and you can see the number