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I-se-kai

Literally that. I dunno how to type intonation though.

It's definitely not ice-kai if that crossed your mind.

esse-kai

いせかい

you pronounce every letter as it is written, because Japanese is like most languages in the world and unlike english

eeeeh-seh-kahy

E-C-Kai

weird, i've been pronouncing it like a racial slur. first time I've heard of these.

You don't.

Se is pronounced. . . Sa? Say?

@TheTrinary it is pronounced as "seh"

Okay I've been doing it right. Ty. I heard someone say it different today and wondered if I was the dummy

Well, most westerners often pronounce isekai with the long 'e'.

We Asians (at least the ones in the east), however, do only with long 'e' whenever it is combined with another letter, like 'i' or 'y'.

you mean most americans

I've heard some Brits before (during one of our anime conventions back here) who pronounced isekai as 'ehy-sehy-kai', or some European person (I wasn't able to determine the nationality, but for sure he's not American or Canadian) speak 'ahy-sehy-kahy'. They're not even joking.

I literally don't know what you're trying to communicate by "'ehy-sehy-ka" or 'ahy-sehy-kahy'. I only somewhat assume that "h" are mute there. Write this in hiragana or the phonetic alphabet.