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I pronounce it the way it is in their language most of the time. A teacher at my school is named Kaoru, and everyone says "cow-roo" in a very obvious American accent. I usually say it in a real Japanese accent unless I'm talking fast in English, but if I'm talking to someome who says it American then I feel like I'm making them feel stupid if I say it TOO authentically, so I say it somewhere in the middle... so I pretty much say it both ways. She doesn't really care. My half-sister Sarah gets called Sara a lot because of the language where she lives, and now she just introduces herself that way most of the time.