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Originally Posted by MMM
It is pronounced the same in any dialect...
(With an American accent):
Ka (as in the first syllable of "cotton")
wa (as in the first syllable of "Washington")
ii (as in the first syllable of "east" but extended to twice as long.)
KAWAII has four syllables in Japanese: Ka-Wa-I-I. Each should be spoken for the same length of time.
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I have to say, the american accent must be profoundly different in pronunciation of the word cotton to an australian accent. the way you have sounded it out using english words sounds much more like 怖い rather than 可愛い. I know you would pronounce it correctly MMM but we pronounce cotton in australian accent like コットン so very different sound. thought that was interesting.