Talk this country down
'I don't like to hear people talking my country down.'

Is it clear that what I intend to say is 'I don't like to hear people bad mouthing my country?'

Question

Talk this country down
'I don't like to hear people talking my country down.'

Is it clear that what I intend to say is 'I don't like to hear people bad mouthing my country?'

Answer

Yes, it means what you intend.

I googled a bit, and find that most people using the idiom "talk down" do not separate the the words.  The majority would say, "I don't like hearing people talk down my country."  However, the way you wrote the sentence is not wrong.

The verb "badmouth" is written either as one word (as I just did), or is written with a hyphen (bad-mouth).  So you could write badmouthing or bad-mouthing.

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Hi it should be

I don't like to hear people down talk my country.

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