Some of you people don't pay attention. He said this was an old-fashioned accent, like you would hear in old gangster films mostly, although you might still come across it once in a while. Listen before you say he doesn't know what he's talking about.
+Maestro_T I know this comments a year old, but just for the record lol Some of "us people," like myself, have lived in the NYC metropolitan are our entire lives and let me tell you that his accent sounds terrible. To someone from this area it just comes of as so horrible. I get the "old school jimmy cagney, gangster" type accent he was going for, but still...it is MILDLY reminiscent at best.
Michael Fleming As an actor, you don't really need to be able to be 100% convincing, though the closer you are, the better, obviously. How many big-name actors, even, can pull off a good accent? Not many, actually. Brits tend to be better at copying North Americans than the reverse, but even Americans trying to sound like other Americans often comes off badly other than indicating the general location the character is supposed to be from.
I went to a job interview. The interviewer introduced himself and he said he's from NYC. His accent was so strong for me. He's talking bloody fast and it's as if there were no pauses or punctuation.
Yup the sounding your R’s like ARE or Awwr is definitely a Boston accent. A couple of his enunciations are for sure Boston. I should know. Born In Brockton and lived in Stoughton when little and then we moved to NY. And this is just the city. The state has its own wildly different accents. Especially up near the border. You’d think you were in a European country in some places
This is like, exactly what they sound like in newsies. He said this would be an old-fashioned accent and you won’t hear it as commonly in New York anymore.
When you're doing an accent video, do the entire video in that particular accent, because when you go back and forth between accents it really throws people off.
Well, people in America have different types of accents too, yes.. what I should have said the first time was, when you're doing an accent video, do the entire video in that particular accent, because when you stop and go back and forth, it really throws people off.
Alex G Maybe it was because, I had just gotten done watching a video where the woman stayed in the New York accent the entire time and it was perfect. Then I came to this and kept getting sucked in to his natural accent.
I'm a New Yorker, he's right in some aspect. I traveled all over the States, people use to tell me that I had an accent. I thought that people who had accent were from the Southern parts of the US. I was wrong. There Californian accents, ... As I started to get conscious of the way I spoke and lost some of my New York accent not all but some... When I was in a NY High School my English teacher once told us that the reason why most of the people from New York, New Jersey and all of New England area (that's parts of Northern NY all the way through to Maine) our pronunciation on certain words were based on the British accent during the time of the colonies . For example when the British say "Coffee or Water" we say it just slightly close to the British pronunciation then a general American or Southern pronunciation. The NY accent began with many different people from all over the world immigrated to America during the days of Ellis Island. The English were mixed with the Italians, Germans, Jews, Polish . For example say Coffee or Water with a NY or New England accent then say Coffee or Water with a general American or Southern accent other then NY or New England. You'll see close similarities to the British version then a General American or Southern version...
It's pretty good for a non native. In fact there are many "New York" accents just as there are many London accents. Brooklyn sounds different from Queens or Lung Goylant (Hoy, hawayew?) or the Bronx. There is even an old and dying out accent specific to Long Island City dock workers. As a generic accent his isn't bad at all, and far better than my British so hats off to you sir.
He makes it pretty clear in a lot of his videos (about the American accents) that these are intended for actors in plays and other productions. So, that being his target audience, this old-school and stereotypical accent is valid I'd say (same goes for the Southern one)
My mother, brother and niece talked as if they had that accent from the time they first learned to talk to about when they were about 10. NONE of them has ever been to New York and outgrew talking like that before the next one was born. Aparently my grandfather talked like that for a while too. If my grandneice/grandnepphew talks like that, I'm going to be convinced that accents can be inheritated genetically.
Hey, I really like your videos and was wondering if you could possibly do a video for a New Jersey accent soon? I need to learn one for a play I was just cast in. Your videos help me greatly!
Well it is a New York City accent spoken in the five boroughs of New York City-especially the North Jersey Gateway Region(where as a Northern US accent is spoken elsewhere in north Jersey and the Philadelphian accent(Non-rhotic) is spoken all over south Jersey).
He's speaking the old nyc accent. Today much of our accent isn't present very often. But if you go deep into the outer boroughs it ranges differently among different ethnic groups.
ha! As someone who's lived right outside New York must say this is pretty good. I like this guy, he doesn't just go from TV/movies/beliefs but actual linguistics. Also he realized no one actually says new "joisey" ! He's the man!
I have been thinking recently that the accents of American southerners may be derived from a Scots accent, while the accents of New Englanders may be derived more from English accents. Scots settled in large numbers in the south (the Carolinas for example) and so their culture and way of speaking had more of an influence there.
Hi, thanks for the videos really inspirers me to learn new accents as I'm doing a gap year in Africa/America. was hoping you could post a video on a Ghanaian accent as I will be staying there for a couple months in October.
dude, i live in New York and you don't sound like a New Yorker at all. you sound like a Brit who's watched too much "All in the Family" and Archie Bunker.
+christina albrecht um yes it is, the only thing that vomes vllse to a new jersey accent is a long island accent and long island still sounds different from new jersey, new jersey accents they prolong there words to much new yorkers cut there words off like italians do.
I went to new York on holiday once and picked u the accent. I was only there for a week but I still have it years later, my friends think I'm crazy but I like it.
As a native NY'er I can hands down tell you that this isn't even close!!! My Irish grandparents said "ter-te-terd" for 33rd. He's not even close on pronunciations here.
Right, with the cot-caught merger characteristic of Eastern New England. NYC probably produces the highest phonetic difference between the two in all of North America, at least in older speakers.
I'm a New Yorker. I don't agree with everything he is teaching in the specific video if accuracy is concerned, but i'm not judging the guy. He knows a lot more about accents than i do, just not the one i'm best at. Either way, good job.
As a lifelong New Yorker--and college teacher of Speech and Public Speaking--I applaud your effort. You're pretty much on target, although you missed some basic sounds of "New Yorkese." New Yorkers typically drop their "ing" endings: "I'm lookin' for the guys who were singin'." They also drop the final "r" almost wherever it appears. "Go pahk the cah." "Is it fahh from here?" (final "r" would be pronounced.) As for "toity toid and toid," I grew up in Brookyn and never once heard this!
We don't do the foist-first thing anymore, but we still drop other R's, such as Card, at least on Long Island. This accent would have been perfect in 1910!
As a native New Yorker (Manhattan) I find this funny as Hell. My dad, who's nearly 60, always does that "Thurdy Thurd and Thurd(33rd and 3rd) accent all the time, if only to joke around. Now that I think about it the "th" and "d" thing is kinda true since New Yorkers usually talk fast.
A person's accent is also defined by vowel pronunciation and cadence (voice rythem.) Consonants are actually the least significant aspect of most accents.
Various NYC accents vary by ethnic groups. For example, New York Jews (especially those from Brooklyn) sound similar to Italian-Americans, yet distinct, as they have more of a Yiddish-based dialect. This also goes for blacks and Latinos, to whom speak in NYC accents but again have varying differences depending on their own language origins. For a New York Jewish accent, think of Bugs Bunny (which combines Brooklyn & Bronx dialects). An Italian New York accent would sound like Gerald Celente's.
I first viewed this video trying out for one of the gangsters in the show Kiss Me Kate and this helped immensely! I got the role, and I highly recommend this video for any help on a gangster voice.
Sounds more like the boston accent. Taking the sentence "park the car in the harvard yard" it would sound like "payk de cay in de hayvayd yayd" in a boston accent, while it would sound like "pahk de cah in de harvahd yahd" in a new york accent. The key is that boston turns R's into "ay" with an I sound, while new york turns R's into "ah" without an I sound.
I don't why people are laughing. I actually have friends (I'm 30) who sound like this. What people typically call a New York accent, are to me regional NY accents; typically Staten Island, some parts of Queens and Long Island. I don't think I have a NY accent until people from other places point it out when I say things like 'coffee' or 'August'. I have a friend I met in college who has the strongest NY accent I've ever heard and she grew up 10- 15 miles from me.
@paperdynamite No, not Jenna Marbles. That's a Western New York accent. It's pretty different. Listen to her As and Os. It's closer to a Minnesota accent than New York City.
Not quite. In most NYC accents, the R is only dropped at the end of a word. So, the "are" he pronounces here is (almost) correct, but "card" is not. Boston is where they drop the R anytime it follows a vowel. (E.g., the famous "Hahvahd yahd.") So, in Boston, "card" is pronounced the same as "car," but with a D-sound on the end. In NYC, "car" has a dropped R, but "card" doesn't. The R in NYC is softer and more subtle than in "generic" American, but it's still there.
So all you guys apparently can't hear he said you don't hear to many people speak like this that is old pay attention before you criticize the man who does a great job at breaking down the differences in speech
It sounds a bit off to me, but I live in North America, so I can hear the British accent underneath the New York accent. Does his New York accent sound authentic to British people, who don’t hear the British accent?
Not really, I am born and raised in London and he sounds like a well-spoken brit doing a bugs bunny impression, plus if he is from London he does not sound like any Londoner that I know.
As a New Yorker this is really a it exaggerated. No one actually says the "th" like a "d". The accent can be very noticeable but no where near as exaggerated. The main thing to work on is the "a" sound is "walk" or "talk" and the "r" sound at the end of a word
as someone who has been learning about this accent, its the Italians that mostly says the "th" like a "t" or "d" because its too difficult for then to pronounce the "th"
If you want a great example of a New York accent, go to Louisiana. There's a small section of that state where they all sound like Dodgers fans from 1958. Emeril LaGasse is a perfect example.
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It's still common, but mostly from people over 50. Most of us in our 30s grew up around it, so it can still be heard.
+Travis Schpeltinger Well it is a cross between italian and irish, as those are the two largest ethnic groups in New York due to immigration waves a long time ago.
Wow! I totally hear an irish accent with the “he soing the foist voise wit hoys voise.” I can see the the irish\italian culture and how it formed that accent.
@tommsr25 My grandfather also said "woik",sometimes and also said "terlet", often reversing the "oi" and "er" sounds.. (He lived in Brownsville, close to East NY, but also in Middletown Orange County, NY) This was a working-class type, early 20th century Jewish, Italian and Irish NY accent. Art Carney as Norton and Caroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker also spoke that way.
Would this accent be good to use for my role in a musical? My school is performing the musical 'Copacabana' and I'm the lead role. It's set in 1947 New York and the character I'm playing is from Brooklyn and is called Tony Forte
@63martin25 You might be thinking of Robert DeNiro's accent from the Untouchables. deNiro was playing Al Capone. Capone was born and raised in Brooklyn before he became head of the Chicago mob, so DeNiro (also a New Yorker) played him with a NY accent--NOT a Chicago accent.
New Yorkers almost always pronounce r's. The only really noticeable thing is the o to aw sound. Like dawg, cawfee, which of course ranges from person to person. I say in between cawfee and cahfee while I know people who say one or the other.
Look the guy actually says that it's stereotypical and classic of an accent so obviously it wont be exactly how you hear it. Besides, most people trying to learn this are thespians and are looking for a comical way to present a part. I'm auditioning to a play an want the advantage of having a ridiculous but recognizable accent to get a funny part. This man is to help these people.
A shame, really... I think the NY accent is the coolest accent in the English language. A friend of mine even says I have a kind of a mix between the Manhattan and Brooklyn accent when I speak with him - and I am not even an American, and English isn't even my first language ! He says that if he didn't know I didn't live in the US, he'd be fooled, lol.
Gotta tell ya Gareth, I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1950's/60's and to think directors are looking for a BROOKLYN accent really makes me laugh. All thru grammar, junior, and high schools they painstakingly tried to teach us proper annunciation and NOT to have an accent. So we could go anywhere and not be pegged as a Brooklynite. I've been away since 1987 and still get comments. By the way I grew up on 29th and 4th ave. in Brooklyn's Bush Terminal section, right near 33rd and 3rd! You can take the kid outta the city, but ya can't take the city outta da kid.
I heard that old-fashioned New York accent in a lot of media and I know the following characters that have it: Mario and Luigi in the American child cartoons based on the Japanese Mario Video Games Snap in Chalkzone Coconuts from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog Master Shake in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Curly Howard and his siblings Shemp and Moe of the three stooges Cookie Monster, Bert, and Ernie in Sesame Street Meowth in Pokemon including the huge anime franchise The characters of The Sopranos Bugs Bunny in Looney Tunes Rocko Wolfe in Rocko's Modern Life even some people from New York City and New Jersey Gateway Region(However that kind of accent wasn't spoken much in New Jersey-In fact, no one in any part of New Jersey talks like that in the video(The only people to have this accent from the video are the Metro New Yorkers)) with this type of speech include The Marx Bros. and Joe Pesci.
Im from New York and i pretty much sound nothing like this, but that might be because i havent lived there my entire life.It might be only me, but i seem to have more of an Italian American accent, you know kinda close to Robert De Niro's even though im from upper North Africa originally..
I was born and raised in New York and I don't talk like that. It's a specific group of ppl that talk that way. New York is a very diverse city and u would hear that accent more in Brooklyn or Long Island, plus that accent is very old and not modern enough. It's true that accent was more in the 70's like John Travolata disco days. The accent changed over the years. In any other bourough the accents are much different depending on their family background and if they are a 1st generation american.
For instance, you said "voice" - the way the NY Irish say it, it's "verse" - "I wanna verse my opinion". There's also "tin ferl" (foil), "terlet" (toilet), "woik" (work), "goil" (girl), etc. I grew up the more Italian way - "mudder" (mother), "buttah" (butter), "maynaise" (mayonnaise), but we all say "wawk" (walk), "tawk", "cawfee", dawg, wawtah, chawklit (chocolate), and a fire hydrant is a "johnny pump'. Everyone "teaching" it on RUclips always overdoes it, although they think they don't.
TV Tropes - American Accents: Noo Yawk/Joisey A lot of Italian Americans have this accent; This is the accent of the Mafia and The Big Apple. You'll hear it commonly in old-school and modern-day media being spoken by all kinds of thugs and gangsters. Stereotypes: Brooklyn Rage, Stooge, Brooklyn Idiot, Thug, Mobster, Gangster, Mafia, Mario and Luigi, Utonio/Utonia, Julio/Julia, Guido/Guidette, Criminal, Dimwit, Klutz Anime and Manga: Meowth from Nintendo and Syndication's Pokémon is a feline caricature of Italian-Americans The characters of Samurai Pizza Kats(Japanese: Ninja Cat Patrol Squad) Gaelic Animation: Bird from Skunk Fu talks like this even though the show takes place in the People's Republic of China Hanna Barbera/Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball has Tobias, Banana Joe, Ms. Simian, and several more, although it takes place in Southern California. There's also an episode where Gumball fakes one. Live-Action: Everyone-all of the characters in HBO's The Sopranos While Larry Fine has a combination of Philadelphian and this accent, Moe(Who talks in a rhotic NYC accent) and his sibling, Curly(Rarely replaced with Shemp) have stereotypical Brooklyn/New Jersey accents. The Characters of the Godfather Trilogy The Characters from Goodfellas Rocky Balboa(Played by Sylvester Stallone) talks in an accent crossed between Brooklyn and Philadelphian accents Groucho Marx American Animation: Rocko Rama from Paramount/Nickelodeon's Rocko's Modern Life Mr. Lunt of VeggieTales has the worst New Jersey accent ever-but the Scallions are good at this accent. Snap(Though is voice is similar to Dexter from Cartoon Network's Dexter's Lab) from Nick's Chalkzone is voiced by Christine Cavanaugh and eventually Candi Milo with this sick Brooklyn accent even though the show takes place in a parallel dimension. Bugs Bunny of WB's Looney Tunes talks in a Flatbush(Half Brooklyn-Half Bronx) Accent. Several characters of WB's(Nowadays Paramount/Nickelodeon's) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(Including Baxter and Raphael) Master Shake talks like this in Aqua Teen Hunger Force where as Carl talks in a non-rhotic Philadelphian accent because of Philadelphia crossing between South Jersey and South-eastern Pennsylvania-that proves the show itself takes place in New Jersey Video Games: The cast of Grand Theft Auto franchise World of Warcraft has the Goblin race who present a really bad Brooklyn/New Jersey
This is more like Long Island, Staten Island, Brooklyn and NJ. I live in Queens. Few people talk like that. Few talk like that in Bronx and Manhattan, etc . either I grew up hearing the general American accent.
For everyone who is complaining they have never heard any of this here in NY, go watch an episode of All in the Family. This stuff is real, its just- AS HE CLEARLY SAID, old fashioned.
old new york accent yes. im born and raised is the big NY and i dont talk anything like this. i dont know any new yorker who speaks like that either lol
Some of you people don't pay attention. He said this was an old-fashioned accent, like you would hear in old gangster films mostly, although you might still come across it once in a while. Listen before you say he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Maestro_T Mel Blanc-style!
Maestro_T He sounds like Jimmy Cagney & Archie Bunker combined. LOL
+Maestro_T I know this comments a year old, but just for the record lol Some of "us people," like myself, have lived in the NYC metropolitan are our entire lives and let me tell you that his accent sounds terrible. To someone from this area it just comes of as so horrible. I get the "old school jimmy cagney, gangster" type accent he was going for, but still...it is MILDLY reminiscent at best.
Michael Fleming As an actor, you don't really need to be able to be 100% convincing, though the closer you are, the better, obviously. How many big-name actors, even, can pull off a good accent? Not many, actually. Brits tend to be better at copying North Americans than the reverse, but even Americans trying to sound like other Americans often comes off badly other than indicating the general location the character is supposed to be from.
I'm a New Yorker and you still hear this accent in Brooklyn, Astoria, and some places in the Bronx.
I went to a job interview. The interviewer introduced himself and he said he's from NYC. His accent was so strong for me. He's talking bloody fast and it's as if there were no pauses or punctuation.
The funny thing is, this old NYC accent is now closer to a Bostonian than a New Yorker accent.
Yup the sounding your R’s like ARE or Awwr is definitely a Boston accent. A couple of his enunciations are for sure Boston. I should know. Born In Brockton and lived in Stoughton when little and then we moved to NY. And this is just the city. The state has its own wildly different accents. Especially up near the border. You’d think you were in a European country in some places
Do you only have that one shirt?
No, he just has mulitple of the same shirt.
FALSE.
Could just be the shirt he wears every time he makes a video
Or he made all the videos in one day.
He's like "this is how New Yorker will sound." I'm like he still sounds British! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I agree but people don't 'sound British' there are so many different accents and British sounds - saying English would be slightly more accurate :)
Mafee3393 there's lots of accents for English as well
Vinnie Langdon it really isn't that funny
Mafee3393 saying English is incorrect too... since Scotland is in Britain too
Vinnie Langdon Very true dude cant get it right
Thank you! My theater class is performing a play set back in 1940's New York. Really needed this!
Can’t help but say he actually teaches really good.
I hear what he's going for but it's coming off as way more Boston-y sounding.
ThePromisedWLAN of course, because old new york was full of Irish, so it makes sense.
This is like, exactly what they sound like in newsies. He said this would be an old-fashioned accent and you won’t hear it as commonly in New York anymore.
When you're doing an accent video, do the entire video in that particular accent, because when you go back and forth between accents it really throws people off.
RyderDixon101 everyone has an accent. he just isn't american. you are trying to say "people with accents I am not familiar with"
Well, people in America have different types of accents too, yes.. what I should have said the first time was, when you're doing an accent video, do the entire video in that particular accent, because when you stop and go back and forth, it really throws people off.
Alex G Maybe it was because, I had just gotten done watching a video where the woman stayed in the New York accent the entire time and it was perfect. Then I came to this and kept getting sucked in to his natural accent.
I'm a New Yorker, he's right in some aspect. I traveled all over the States, people use to tell me that I had an accent. I thought that people who had accent were from the Southern parts of the US. I was wrong. There Californian accents, ... As I started to get conscious of the way I spoke and lost some of my New York accent not all but some... When I was in a NY High School my English teacher once told us that the reason why most of the people from New York, New Jersey and all of New England area (that's parts of Northern NY all the way through to Maine) our pronunciation on certain words were based on the British accent during the time of the colonies . For example when the British say "Coffee or Water" we say it just slightly close to the British pronunciation then a general American or Southern pronunciation. The NY accent began with many different people from all over the world immigrated to America during the days of Ellis Island. The English were mixed with the Italians, Germans, Jews, Polish . For example say Coffee or Water with a NY or New England accent then say Coffee or Water with a general American or Southern accent other then NY or New England. You'll see close similarities to the British version then a General American or Southern version...
Is it ok if i speak a General American Accent with New Yourker?!
@@AliAhmed-sj4oh Yes. That is perfectly fine, which is the case of all Americans.
It's pretty good for a non native. In fact there are many "New York" accents just as there are many London accents. Brooklyn sounds different from Queens or Lung Goylant (Hoy, hawayew?) or the Bronx. There is even an old and dying out accent specific to Long Island City dock workers. As a generic accent his isn't bad at all, and far better than my British so hats off to you sir.
I was playing Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls and this helped A LOT! Thank you
He makes it pretty clear in a lot of his videos (about the American accents) that these are intended for actors in plays and other productions. So, that being his target audience, this old-school and stereotypical accent is valid I'd say (same goes for the Southern one)
My mother, brother and niece talked as if they had that accent from the time they first learned to talk to about when they were about 10. NONE of them has ever been to New York and outgrew talking like that before the next one was born. Aparently my grandfather talked like that for a while too. If my grandneice/grandnepphew talks like that, I'm going to be convinced that accents can be inheritated genetically.
I always figured that's how people from New Jersey would sound XD
north jersey kinda souunds like this close but not 100 percent
Umm no it does not I live in New Jersey we sound NOTHING like that PS it's afenceive
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zoom zoom103 im from nj and only ppl from north jersey kind of sound like that
What are yous fucking talkin about?
Hey, I really like your videos and was wondering if you could possibly do a video for a New Jersey accent soon? I need to learn one for a play I was just cast in. Your videos help me greatly!
Well it is a New York City accent spoken in the five boroughs of New York City-especially the North Jersey Gateway Region(where as a Northern US accent is spoken elsewhere in north Jersey and the Philadelphian accent(Non-rhotic) is spoken all over south Jersey).
He's speaking the old nyc accent. Today much of our accent isn't present very often. But if you go deep into the outer boroughs it ranges differently among different ethnic groups.
ha! As someone who's lived right outside New York must say this is pretty good. I like this guy, he doesn't just go from TV/movies/beliefs but actual linguistics.
Also he realized no one actually says new "joisey" ! He's the man!
I have been thinking recently that the accents of American southerners may be derived from a Scots accent, while the accents of New Englanders may be derived more from English accents. Scots settled in large numbers in the south (the Carolinas for example) and so their culture and way of speaking had more of an influence there.
Hi, thanks for the videos really inspirers me to learn new accents as I'm doing a gap year in Africa/America. was hoping you could post a video on a Ghanaian accent as I will be staying there for a couple months in October.
dude, i live in New York and you don't sound like a New Yorker at all. you sound like a Brit who's watched too much "All in the Family" and Archie Bunker.
tsartodd He specifically said old fashioned.
***** Oh that's why it was still familiar. Thanks.
+1 1 are u kidding italian new york long island jersey boston compton accents are all similar this was a fucking overly topped hyped up jersey accent
TrolliN KingiN N GamiN Ha. Jersey's accent isn't much different from some of New York's though so...
+christina albrecht um yes it is, the only thing that vomes vllse to a new jersey accent is a long island accent and long island still sounds different from new jersey, new jersey accents they prolong there words to much new yorkers cut there words off like italians do.
I have an audition in a few days and i need to know an old NY accent for the part i want. This helped a lot thank you!
I went to new York on holiday once and picked u the accent. I was only there for a week but I still have it years later, my friends think I'm crazy but I like it.
As a native NY'er I can hands down tell you that this isn't even close!!! My Irish grandparents said "ter-te-terd" for 33rd. He's not even close on pronunciations here.
Thats Boston
not even close
Antonio B. no its not but it is close to the Boston accent.
Right, with the cot-caught merger characteristic of Eastern New England. NYC probably produces the highest phonetic difference between the two in all of North America, at least in older speakers.
That's New York City all day how he talking and he's teaching it very well he gotta be a New Yorker himself born & raised
Gotta be honest, I've been watching all your videos, and your videos all impressed me until this one...Haha. Might want to visit ny a few more times.
I'm a New Yorker. I don't agree with everything he is teaching in the specific video if accuracy is concerned, but i'm not judging the guy. He knows a lot more about accents than i do, just not the one i'm best at. Either way, good job.
As a lifelong New Yorker--and college teacher of Speech and Public Speaking--I applaud your effort. You're pretty much on target, although you missed some basic sounds of "New Yorkese."
New Yorkers typically drop their "ing" endings: "I'm lookin' for the guys who were singin'." They also drop the final "r" almost wherever it appears. "Go pahk the cah." "Is it fahh from here?" (final "r" would be pronounced.) As for "toity toid and toid," I grew up in Brookyn and never once heard this!
Why is everyone criticizing him? This to teach you, he’s not just showing off.
We don't do the foist-first thing anymore, but we still drop other R's, such as Card, at least on Long Island. This accent would have been perfect in 1910!
He's one "What's up Doc?" away from being Bugs Bunny.
I'm from NYC and this accent was probably common in the 30's or 40's but now you wouldn't hear that here, you'd hear this accent in New Jersey
Nice stuff.
Thanks for the help on my On The Town audition!
His accent's good. The foist-first thing is somewhat outdated, but not completely. You can still hear quite a few New Yorkers talk like that.
There is more than one accent in New York. This video captures bits and pieces of various accents.
I love the new York accent
Sounds like Newsies up in here
Nice! Newsies is so great!
You mean newfies right?
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As a native New Yorker (Manhattan) I find this funny as Hell. My dad, who's nearly 60, always does that "Thurdy Thurd and Thurd(33rd and 3rd) accent all the time, if only to joke around. Now that I think about it the "th" and "d" thing is kinda true since New Yorkers usually talk fast.
Yes-that's exactly what I would use for impressing my friends, people, and family.
A person's accent is also defined by vowel pronunciation and cadence (voice rythem.) Consonants are actually the least significant aspect of most accents.
This is more like old New Jersey
Various NYC accents vary by ethnic groups. For example, New York Jews (especially those from Brooklyn) sound similar to Italian-Americans, yet distinct, as they have more of a Yiddish-based dialect. This also goes for blacks and Latinos, to whom speak in NYC accents but again have varying differences depending on their own language origins. For a New York Jewish accent, think of Bugs Bunny (which combines Brooklyn & Bronx dialects). An Italian New York accent would sound like Gerald Celente's.
By the way, you know some live action, cartoon, and anime characters that talk like that?
I first viewed this video trying out for one of the gangsters in the show Kiss Me Kate and this helped immensely! I got the role, and I highly recommend this video for any help on a gangster voice.
Sounds more like the boston accent. Taking the sentence "park the car in the harvard yard" it would sound like "payk de cay in de hayvayd yayd" in a boston accent, while it would sound like "pahk de cah in de harvahd yahd" in a new york accent.
The key is that boston turns R's into "ay" with an I sound, while new york turns R's into "ah" without an I sound.
Wrong, Boston doesn't pronounce R's. R's are non existent to us. Dart is, Daht, Car is Cah, and Park is Pahk. Etc.
Dude thanks you taught me a lot actually that was awesome
Damn new yorkers, always so critical about where people let their dogs cross
Billy Crozier lol 😂😂
I don't why people are laughing. I actually have friends (I'm 30) who sound like this. What people typically call a New York accent, are to me regional NY accents; typically Staten Island, some parts of Queens and Long Island. I don't think I have a NY accent until people from other places point it out when I say things like 'coffee' or 'August'. I have a friend I met in college who has the strongest NY accent I've ever heard and she grew up 10- 15 miles from me.
Just been using it to rehearse for 'guys and dolls' - very very useful thanks
@paperdynamite No, not Jenna Marbles. That's a Western New York accent. It's pretty different. Listen to her As and Os. It's closer to a Minnesota accent than New York City.
Not quite. In most NYC accents, the R is only dropped at the end of a word. So, the "are" he pronounces here is (almost) correct, but "card" is not. Boston is where they drop the R anytime it follows a vowel. (E.g., the famous "Hahvahd yahd.") So, in Boston, "card" is pronounced the same as "car," but with a D-sound on the end. In NYC, "car" has a dropped R, but "card" doesn't. The R in NYC is softer and more subtle than in "generic" American, but it's still there.
If you don't speak like this in NYC then you should!! best English speaking accent fo' sure
So all you guys apparently can't hear he said you don't hear to many people speak like this that is old pay attention before you criticize the man who does a great job at breaking down the differences in speech
It sounds a bit off to me, but I live in North America, so I can hear the British accent underneath the New York accent. Does his New York accent sound authentic to British people, who don’t hear the British accent?
Not really, I am born and raised in London and he sounds like a well-spoken brit doing a bugs bunny impression, plus if he is from London he does not sound like any Londoner that I know.
thanks.. needed the accent for plau and now ive masterterd it in 2minutes
As a New Yorker this is really a it exaggerated. No one actually says the "th" like a "d". The accent can be very noticeable but no where near as exaggerated. The main thing to work on is the "a" sound is "walk" or "talk" and the "r" sound at the end of a word
as someone who has been learning about this accent, its the Italians that mostly says the "th" like a "t" or "d" because its too difficult for then to pronounce the "th"
If you want a great example of a New York accent, go to Louisiana. There's a small section of that state where they all sound like Dodgers fans from 1958.
Emeril LaGasse is a perfect example.
It's still common, but mostly from people over 50. Most of us in our 30s grew up around it, so it can still be heard.
I always slip into Australian trying to do this.
im a New Yorker and thats NOT how we speak AT ALL in NYC
maybe in brooklyn though BUT NOT IN MANHATTAN
I'm in a production of guys and Dolls and I'm trying to learn a new york accent this helps
What the fuck...Its really weird...Like a cross between italian,irish and british...
+Travis Schpeltinger Well it is a cross between italian and irish, as those are the two largest ethnic groups in New York due to immigration waves a long time ago.
+Travis Schpeltinger thats because he's not doing it right
archie bunker pefect example of irish american ny accent
"Probably not as common today, but it does still exist with some speakers".
Do you guys know how to listen to an introduction? He does pretty well.
The instruction was good, but the music overwhelmed the rest (for me) after 1:20. =(
Wow! I totally hear an irish accent with the “he soing the foist voise wit hoys voise.” I can see the the irish\italian culture and how it formed that accent.
@tommsr25
My grandfather also said "woik",sometimes and also said "terlet", often reversing the "oi" and "er" sounds.. (He lived in Brownsville, close to East NY, but also in Middletown Orange County, NY) This was a working-class type, early 20th century Jewish, Italian and Irish NY accent. Art Carney as Norton and Caroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker also spoke that way.
Can you do a video for an Italian accent?
Would this accent be good to use for my role in a musical? My school is performing the musical 'Copacabana' and I'm the lead role. It's set in 1947 New York and the character I'm playing is from Brooklyn and is called Tony Forte
I'm here to use the accent for my musical 'Guys and Dolls' which is set in 1950s New York, so yeah I guess so :)
Little shop of horrors for me :)
Katie Cleland cool that was our musical a couple of years ago
If you have read or watched the movie "The Outsiders", then you would understand lads. I'm Irish, but this is very much used in that movie
“Thoty thoid street” would sound something like “Churdy Turd street” in today’s way of it lmaooo🤣
its OLD NY
@63martin25
You might be thinking of Robert DeNiro's accent from the Untouchables. deNiro was playing Al Capone. Capone was born and raised in Brooklyn before he became head of the Chicago mob, so DeNiro (also a New Yorker) played him with a NY accent--NOT a Chicago accent.
New Yorkers almost always pronounce r's. The only really noticeable thing is the o to aw sound. Like dawg, cawfee, which of course ranges from person to person. I say in between cawfee and cahfee while I know people who say one or the other.
@ceeeim He is doing the OLD New York accent. NOT the current New York accent. Try to pay attention.
OMG, as an American, born & raised I am literally, LMAO!!
Look the guy actually says that it's stereotypical and classic of an accent so obviously it wont be exactly how you hear it. Besides, most people trying to learn this are thespians and are looking for a comical way to present a part. I'm auditioning to a play an want the advantage of having a ridiculous but recognizable accent to get a funny part. This man is to help these people.
The ny accent is dying, im a new yorker born and raised here. Not many people talk like that anymore
A shame, really... I think the NY accent is the coolest accent in the English language. A friend of mine even says I have a kind of a mix between the Manhattan and Brooklyn accent when I speak with him - and I am not even an American, and English isn't even my first language ! He says that if he didn't know I didn't live in the US, he'd be fooled, lol.
I’m just here because I have a grease the,Ed prom in a few hours. Now I need to memorise this ASAP
I find these videos to be somewhat hit and miss. some are absolutely exceptional though
good for a drama act you helped me a lot thanks:)
Gotta tell ya Gareth, I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1950's/60's and to think directors are looking for a BROOKLYN accent really makes me laugh. All thru grammar, junior, and high schools they painstakingly tried to teach us proper annunciation and NOT to have an accent. So we could go anywhere and not be pegged as a Brooklynite. I've been away since 1987 and still get comments. By the way I grew up on 29th and 4th ave. in Brooklyn's Bush Terminal section, right near 33rd and 3rd! You can take the kid outta the city, but ya can't take the city outta da kid.
I heard that old-fashioned New York accent in a lot of media and I know the following characters that have it:
Mario and Luigi in the American child cartoons based on the Japanese Mario Video Games
Snap in Chalkzone
Coconuts from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
Master Shake in Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Curly Howard and his siblings Shemp and Moe of the three stooges
Cookie Monster, Bert, and Ernie in Sesame Street
Meowth in Pokemon including the huge anime franchise
The characters of The Sopranos
Bugs Bunny in Looney Tunes
Rocko Wolfe in Rocko's Modern Life
even some people from New York City and New Jersey Gateway Region(However that kind of accent wasn't spoken much in New Jersey-In fact, no one in any part of New Jersey talks like that in the video(The only people to have this accent from the video are the Metro New Yorkers)) with this type of speech include The Marx Bros. and Joe Pesci.
Im from New York and i pretty much sound nothing like this, but that might be because i havent lived there my entire life.It might be only me, but i seem to have more of an Italian American accent, you know kinda close to Robert De Niro's even though im from upper North Africa originally..
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I was born and raised in New York and I don't talk like that. It's a specific group of ppl that talk that way. New York is a very diverse city and u would hear that accent more in Brooklyn or Long Island, plus that accent is very old and not modern enough. It's true that accent was more in the 70's like John Travolata disco days. The accent changed over the years. In any other bourough the accents are much different depending on their family background and if they are a 1st generation american.
Just listen how the Ramones talk from the Queens. Marky is from Brooklyn and he talks funny!
I live in new York and I have never heard someone that sounds like this😂
Ha ha lol🤣
For instance, you said "voice" - the way the NY Irish say it, it's "verse" - "I wanna verse my opinion". There's also "tin ferl" (foil), "terlet" (toilet), "woik" (work), "goil" (girl), etc. I grew up the more Italian way - "mudder" (mother), "buttah" (butter), "maynaise" (mayonnaise), but we all say "wawk" (walk), "tawk", "cawfee", dawg, wawtah, chawklit (chocolate), and a fire hydrant is a "johnny pump'. Everyone "teaching" it on RUclips always overdoes it, although they think they don't.
What part of NY? I am a NYer and never heard this mystical accent.
Black yorker: Aye B! Deadass doe!
I can hear the difference but I can't name her precisely, when I compare this accent and a Russian one. They seem to share many features.
TV Tropes - American Accents: Noo Yawk/Joisey
A lot of Italian Americans have this accent; This is the accent of the Mafia and The Big Apple. You'll hear it commonly in old-school and modern-day media being spoken by all kinds of thugs and gangsters. Stereotypes: Brooklyn Rage, Stooge, Brooklyn Idiot, Thug, Mobster, Gangster, Mafia, Mario and Luigi, Utonio/Utonia, Julio/Julia, Guido/Guidette, Criminal, Dimwit, Klutz
Anime and Manga:
Meowth from Nintendo and Syndication's Pokémon is a feline caricature of Italian-Americans
The characters of Samurai Pizza Kats(Japanese: Ninja Cat Patrol Squad)
Gaelic Animation:
Bird from Skunk Fu talks like this even though the show takes place in the People's Republic of China
Hanna Barbera/Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball has Tobias, Banana Joe, Ms. Simian, and several more, although it takes place in Southern California. There's also an episode where Gumball fakes one.
Live-Action:
Everyone-all of the characters in HBO's The Sopranos
While Larry Fine has a combination of Philadelphian and this accent, Moe(Who talks in a rhotic NYC accent) and his sibling, Curly(Rarely replaced with Shemp) have stereotypical Brooklyn/New Jersey accents.
The Characters of the Godfather Trilogy
The Characters from Goodfellas
Rocky Balboa(Played by Sylvester Stallone) talks in an accent crossed between Brooklyn and Philadelphian accents
Groucho Marx
American Animation:
Rocko Rama from Paramount/Nickelodeon's Rocko's Modern Life
Mr. Lunt of VeggieTales has the worst New Jersey accent ever-but the Scallions are good at this accent.
Snap(Though is voice is similar to Dexter from Cartoon Network's Dexter's Lab) from Nick's Chalkzone is voiced by Christine Cavanaugh and eventually Candi Milo with this sick Brooklyn accent even though the show takes place in a parallel dimension.
Bugs Bunny of WB's Looney Tunes talks in a Flatbush(Half Brooklyn-Half Bronx) Accent.
Several characters of WB's(Nowadays Paramount/Nickelodeon's) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(Including Baxter and Raphael)
Master Shake talks like this in Aqua Teen Hunger Force where as Carl talks in a non-rhotic Philadelphian accent because of Philadelphia crossing between South Jersey and South-eastern Pennsylvania-that proves the show itself takes place in New Jersey
Video Games:
The cast of Grand Theft Auto franchise
World of Warcraft has the Goblin race who present a really bad Brooklyn/New Jersey
Thanks! Using this for my next Call of Cthulhu character.
@minciNashu
No, Peter and Lois Griffin from "Family Guy" have Rhode Island/Massachussets accents
This is more like Long Island, Staten Island, Brooklyn and NJ. I live in Queens. Few people talk like that. Few talk like that in Bronx and Manhattan, etc . either I grew up hearing the general American accent.
For everyone who is complaining they have never heard any of this here in NY, go watch an episode of All in the Family. This stuff is real, its just- AS HE CLEARLY SAID, old fashioned.
I as a New Yorker am just confused.
That blind in the background is a literal Optical Illusion
old new york accent yes. im born and raised is the big NY and i dont talk anything like this. i dont know any new yorker who speaks like that either lol
I'm from New York and the only people who talk like this are bugs bunny and reality tv stars