How to pronounce “keep abreast” in English

In situations like my brother being physically attacked so brutally that he was hospitalized with a broken leg for three months, it becomes very difficult to maintain your composure.But amidst all these challenges, the ability to maintain your composure and mental balance, and to teach students, to discover new mathematical formulae, to keep abreast with competitions like the AMC of the US, and then compare them with those in IITs,to understand the trend in the Russian Mathematical Olympiad and then to further explain it, all these are challenges, but it is satisfying that despite these challenges,