Dear viewers once again....I'm from Queens, yes it is not boring, it's a joke. Yes these accents are old school and not representative of everyone nor relatively recent. I did not attempt African American/Latino accents as I can't do them justice. Feel free to make you own video of these accents. Thanks for watching.
The "Queens" accent in this video is actually a Jewish accent. What is more noticeable about Queens is some odd breaks on syllables. For example, LAWN GUY land in place of Long Island. Also pronunciation of certain vowels is very sharp and noticeable. "Merry, Mary, and Marry" are three separate words in Queens as in Long Island. Sometimes Queens and Long Island pronunciations are identical. Don't forget, the borough of Nassau was once Eastern Queens. Also, Queens is the most international borough with over 225 languages spoken in Western Queens alone.
The accents really depend upon nationality (sort of like Boston)...there's the Irish New York, the Italian New York, the Jewish New York, Black New York, Latino New York, Lace Curtain Irish, Upper Class Irish Catholic, Old New York German Jewish. Almost nobody but a native New Yorker can nail 'em.
Bronx = Chazz Palminteri. Brooklyn = Elderly Jewish woman. Queens = Fran Drescher. Staten Island = George Costanza's mom. Manhattan (probably the most accurate one) = White chick from the Lower East Side.
I'm not even American, but a good American friend of mine says I speak with a mix of Manhattan and Brooklyn accent, lol. He says it's so good that it's hard at times to tell I don't even live in the US.
I almost wet myself laughing listening to this. I grew up on Long Island for the first eleven years of life before moving to So California. I have relatives in all five boroughs and YOU NAILED IT!!!!
You are correct, I'm doing old school Brooklyn, a lot of these accents have migrated east to Long Island. Brooklyn is now more diverse but they still love their vowels! :)
Yup, migrated to Long Island. It's fascinating, isn't it. But the old school Brooklyn accent is still there in Brooklyn too. In the earlier part of when I lived there, (1997-2014), there were even still some old fellas who spoke in the even older old school "toidy toid and toid" accent. I didn't know that still existed in living people and I remember passing a couple of these guys and trying not to look too wide-eyed.
I'm from Queens and I about died when she did this accent! LMAO I can't! She did a good job with all the accents. I'd have to say I sound the most like the "Manhattan" voice ... "5,000 cups of coffee so I'll get back to ya *.* " hahahahaha!
rarely I find people who sound like that in new york and when I do it's hilarious. Also when I leave new york everyone says I have a new yorker accent but in new york everyone says I have a weird accent and constantly ask where I was born....which was new york, where I lived all my life.
😂😂😂 Hi-Five Queens Born New Yorker, moved to FL at 25 Now accent too Southern back home and I'm automatically "from New York" down here. Double Lol at the Queens accent because I am guilty 😂😂😂
We're ALL OVER!! 😂😂😂😂 My Sunday included trying to use Google Voice to type up a document to save time.... 90% success ...all the time I spent correcting words after I was done, not even counting the medical terms. * forehead slap * 😂😂😂😂
This really isn't very accurate, people in the five boroughs do not speak that differently. What she's described are accents of social classes Bronx (lower class) Brooklyn (upper middle class) Queens (working class) Staten Island (middle class) and Manhattan (upper class). Also, these are mostly accents of white people, African Americans and Latinos usually speak differently.
Bronx isn't that bad, c'mon I really wish people would stop acting like if step one toe into the Bronx you're gonna get hit with a flaming brick. The Puerto Rican/Dominican girls that I know that live in the Bronx have a very...laid back accent. Like their accents are very lol I guess lazy would be the word? Maybe you pronounce the consonants maybe you don't, maybe you make your vowels sound different...if thats your thing... hehehe
SmoochBoosh Never let them know how nice the Bronx is or it will be over-run like Astoria and you will have to move. Keep The New York Botanical Garden, City Island, Arthur Avenue, The Bronx Zoo, Wave Hill, and Van Cortland Park to yourselves.
Mary Finn True. Very. True. Brooklyn used to be quite the little gem, then hipster artists found out its cheaper than the Village and the rest is history.
As someone from Westchester who spent a lot of time in the city growing up (mostly the Bronx, Staten Island and Manhattan) this is exaggerated for effect but pretty spot on. The big thing with NY accents is that almost no one is 100% pure because almost everybody in the city travels a good deal within the five burroughs. Like my aunt was raised in the Bronx and lived most of her adult life on Staten Island so her accent is different from my cousin who was raised in Staten Island but works in Manhattan.
Hi, vigwig, I think you've done a good job with your differentiations of the accents of the five boroughs! I like your insights on the underlying reasons for the subtle distinctions between these local accents. I'm from Red Hook and many years ago had realized that slight differences in accent can be heard even between areas that are very close to each other! I'm sure it's changing rapidly now, but there was a time when accents were very distinct to one's own neighborhood. Nicely done.
The first time I realized my parents had a Bronx was years after they passed away and I heard them talk on a video tape my sister had made. Not having heard their voices for a long time the accent, especially my mother's, really knocked me for a loop. Didn't sound anything like I remembered. Having been told many times about my Bronx accent and being proud of being from there, I wondered, if after living outside the Bronx for over 30 years if I might have lost it, until one day I was speaking to someone on the phone for the first time and she asked me if I was from the Bronx. MADE MY DAY!!!
Nailed it from a classic perspective. Yes, the whole immigrant thing does neutralize some of this but it's very spot on. Archie Bunker lived with Edith in Queens and your rendition of the Queens accent is so precise, it's scary. The Chazz Palminteri character in "A Bronx Tale" is also perfectly in line with these renditions. Brooklyn is perfect and so is Manhattan. I love what you did here. It took me back to my childhood. Brava to you!
I live in Queens most of my life. No one in Queens sounds like Edit or Fran Drescher. There was another video on New York accents that was correct. There really isn't a distinct New York accent by borough. I agree with the comment above, it's more by nationality, the Italian-New York accent, the Puerto Rican-New York accent, Jewish-New York accent.
As someone who loves the uniqueness of accents, I hate how regional and area accents are just kinda dying in the wake of this generically dull midwestern/SoCali one.
@@foodreviews3454 Well he said, it's rare among younger people. That doesn't mean they all don't speak with that accent. There are some who do. They're just not as many.
This is one of my favorite videos on TH-cam. I seen it years ago when it came out and just loved it. And it popped up in my recommended videos so I watched it again lol 10 years later!!
Oh my God oh my God this is incredible. YOU are incredible. How have I never found this before when I routinely listen to accent videos?! Good grief this was a utter pleasure. Thank you thank you thank you.
Oh...wait, apparently I have seen it before? I see my likes here and there. Well, NOT a measure of how memorable this is, but rather the extreme stress I've been under. But it was LIKE discovering it for the first time, which is pretty great. So my comment stands. : )
Maybe this is what helps define the world's greatest cities. Paris has about 5 accents, even a hilarious tough-guy one used in cartoons and gangster films. Let's hear from London. Rating, as a sociologist, I give this 10 out of 10. Mainly because it's a quick summary, done without judging. And, as we see from the thousands of comments, a perfect basis for discussion: that within borough accents there are variations depending on ethnicity, age, class and education. Accents within accents within accents. Thank you and Bravo!
Love your rendition of the five boroughs. I grew up in Nassau, my father grew up in the Bronx. That Bronx accent reminds me of my aunts and uncles, although I suspect some of them of exaggerating their accent just to be funny. I've been in Southern California since 1986, sometimes feel a little homesick for Long Island and the New York area.
Thank you. This is something I've always wondered about. I can hear the difference when they're spoken side by side. But not being from NYC I wonder if I could tell some of them apart listening to them on their own. You did a good job distinguishing them. This was great.
I'm a 37 almost 38 yr old Italian guy born & raised in BENSONHURST BROOKLYN N.Y. Ok, listen to me people..... if your not from 1 of the 5 boroughs or your never around anybody who is from 1 of the boroughs, DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THIS LADY! That is NOT what we (especially us BROOKLYNITES) sound like AT ALL! ....Yes we do have a 1-OF-A-KIND & EXTREMELY UNIQUE ACCENT w/ our own SPECIAL SLANG (& F**K'N PROUD OF IT!). This lady's not totally wrong, she DEFINITELY has the "Jewish" N.Y.C./5 Boroughs accent DOWN TO A TEE, but that's NOT what ALL Native N.Y.ers sound like! ......All I'm sayin' is this lady should really just Rename the title of her video so she doesn't mislead or confuse the rest of America about N.Y.C.!
WAIT, so the brooklyn accent is not an italian accent? ive met many jews in brooklyn, and they speak regular american accent... i imagine the old people like bernie sanders are only speaking with brooklyn jewish accent.
I called California recently with a question about ordering merchandise. The girl on the phone asked: Where are you from? I said, "New York City__Staten Island". She laughed and said, "I know, I can tell by your accent". Are New Yorkers really that identifiable? lol
OMG! This is so right on point, it is absolutely hilarious. Truly, one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TH-cam. When creating something humorous, the closer the joke is to factual truth, the funnier it is. You have certainly succeeded here. Hilarious and clever beyond words. Too perfect!
it's funny that every accent sounds like it's from the jewish perspective - I say that as a fellow native. Just scrolled down to see I'm not alone in that thought.
Hi Vigwig, got a hoot out of this. Rain sent us a link to the NYT article. Wonderful that you and Dudley got well-deserved recognition! Donald and Debbie
Thanks! Please keep in mind that I am exaggerating differences for comedic effect. The amount of nasality, consonant/vowel use etc. varies and blends depending what part of the borough one is in but yes Queens generally is rather nasal. Also I didn't attempt to do the accents of people of Hispanic background or African Americans as those accents differ. Glad you enjoyed it. :)
BX accent featured here is Puerto Rican / Italian influenced BK accent featured is Italian influenced Queens accent featured is Irish / Jewish influenced SI accent is Irish influenced As for Manhattan, it is corporate influenced.
If you are from New York, then speak with a new York accent. Don't speak with a standard American accent, that's boring. Keep ny culture alive and speak with the accent.
`This is brilliant and spot on - but like others have said, it's more like variations on the regional old school Jewish accents of NYC. Ethnicity is everything in NY accents - much stronger influence than boro - and traditionally each ethnic group retained some tones/flavor from the mother tongue. Plus everyone gets influenced by everyone else and it all blends and mutates constantly. NYC was murdered in the 1990s and is just a shadow of the real city of legend. But in 2015 Queens and the Bronx are the last bastions of reality - the rest is Disneyland. Great video!
+Quabledistocficklepo Sure - from the 1840s through the mid 1990s there existed a city call New York. New York City was a wild, ungovernable, seething mass of impoverished immigrants and newcomers who came to escape their native towns and live in single most diverse, deviant, and criminal city the world had ever known. NYC was the most important center of every type of business, art, and vice in the US, and in many ways the most powerful city in the world through the 20th century. There was nothing remotely like it anywhere else on earth. The city was controlled from the streets up and the powers that be had to constantly juggle different ethnic coalitions while allowing the city to be run by street level organized crime - First the Irish, then the Italian/Jewish alliance known as the Mob. NYC was a cheap place to live - a place anyone could come to and survive. NYC was a town in which the rich and poor shared everything and mingling block by block - and a city in which the poor so outnumbered the rich that the latter had to mind their manners. In the mid 90s secret deals were cut which unleashed the always corrupt NYPD and turned the city over to a backroom coaliton of real estate interests. In the years since the city has been transformed into a bastion of 1% yuppie privilege as corrupt foreign money from all over the world has flooded in to buy up real estate and push out New Yorkers. The city that stands where NYC used to stand is a yuppie disneyland now run by corporate organized crime. No one creative can afford to live there anymore. What was once a place most of the world feared and people moved to to escape conformity is now the exact opposite - a place the dullest and most ambitious yuppies eagerly flock to. A place that looks little different from any shopping mall in the world. Bottom line is - if you were ever in the real NYC you wouldn't have to ask what I mean. Totally different places.
+Pete Nyce Very nice history lesson. I often visited relatives in Queens (and toured the city) in the '60s and up into the '00s. A sizable, rent-controlled, two-bedroom apartment in Sunnyside: $500/month. Coming from a Midwestern suburban b.g., my brother and I found it raw and a little threatening, but exciting. Old Times Square was the best (as a young adult). The degenerates. The hookers. The sex shows. The porn.
lol I know this is an old post but I can confirm this. I live in San Diego and my boyfriend is from Brooklyn. I could listen to that accent all day lol 😉
if you're not from NY, this is not really what we sound like. She's doing some variations of different types of jewish new yorkers but there's plenty of different variations depending on race, nationality, culture, religion and sex. And like anywhere else there's people with a wide range of thickness in their accents. There's also not really a difference in the boroughs except staten islanders usually have thicker accents I think cause we forget about them and they gotta make sure everyone knows they're there idk
I LOVE THIS!!! For someone who lives hours away from NYC, I really never have been able to quite figure out the make up of NYC. I've only been in Manhattan a couple of times (e.g., to see Sinatra at Carnegie), I was briefly on Staten Island once many many years ago to tune a piano before I retired from that business (I lived for a brief 12 years in NJ), and I traveled through Brooklyn on my way to Hauppauge (Long Island) for less than two months on a temporary job commute. I don't think I could live in any of the boroughs, as I like open spaces. But, I have always loved the accents. They have character to them. Although vigwig states that these are not representative of everyone, it really does help me have a better understanding. And, though the video was done with tongue-in-cheek, I have an idea that The Bronx just might very well be a tough place. From my brief time on Long Island, I believe that the folks in Brooklyn and those on Long Island share similar "chewing on their vowels". At least one of my favorite supervisors, who was from Long Island, munched on her vowels. :) Thank you, vigwig.
I'm from Rego Park, so I enjoyed the Queens accent very much. Reminded me of the Jewish women in my building that always reprimanded me for either running in the lobby or walking through the grass area in front of the building. Thanks for sharing.
That was really pretty good. I was born & raised in Manhattan but I do an excellent Brooklyn accent that everyone finds hilarious. Queens is hard to do but you nailed it. I have an elderly neighbor from Bronx and OMG you got that exactly right.I know what you mean about Manhattan but I can think of a thousand exceptions. I know some very lazy, laid back-sounding natives, they seem exhausted in a way. And many go out of their way to sound like they are from CT... maybe for career reasons. Don't forget, it used to be kind of a bad neighborhood and you didn't want to sound like a New Yorker during an interview. After you are hired, then okReally rich Manhattanites like Jackie Kennedy and Gloria Vanderbilt have a totally unique way of speaking but oddly enough I can hear the NYKer, esp Jackie.... it's hard to put your finger on. It would be awesome if you could attempt that one. Posh Manhattan old school. I can spot it from a mile away but it's incredibly hard to imitate.
Hey, Queens here. It's not boring. There are plenty of things to do in Queens. We have great restaurants and stadiums. Where is the US Open? In Queen! And we have Citi Field. Brooklyn doesn't have a ballpark. We're closer to the beaches than Brooklyn and Manhattan. We can hop over the bridge if we want to go upstate or into the city. We're closer to the airport than the other boroughs. It's the perfect place to live. Wouldn't live anywhere else in New York. And you're taking the Queens accent from Fran Drescher? Hardly anyone in Queens talks like Fran Drescher.
As a girl from Queens that accent at least from where I'm from South Queens....we sound ghetto....like this is some stereotypical Jewish person like you see in the movies NYC accents....
This was very entertaining and funny. Finally someone got da BRONX accent pretty good, you know? ... :-) ...... Seriously though, most borough accents sound a lot like each other these days.
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Dear viewers once again....I'm from Queens, yes it is not boring, it's a joke. Yes these accents are old school and not representative of everyone nor relatively recent. I did not attempt African American/Latino accents as I can't do them justice. Feel free to make you own video of these accents. Thanks for watching.
I thought it was funny, I dunno what people are so uptight about.
***** Thanks, I dunno why either, but this is youtube after all.
The "Queens" accent in this video is actually a Jewish accent. What is more noticeable about Queens is some odd breaks on syllables. For example, LAWN GUY land in place of Long Island. Also pronunciation of certain vowels is very sharp and noticeable. "Merry, Mary, and Marry" are three separate words in Queens as in Long Island. Sometimes Queens and Long Island pronunciations are identical. Don't forget, the borough of Nassau was once Eastern Queens. Also, Queens is the most international borough with over 225 languages spoken in Western Queens alone.
I love it lol
Lol, I laughed like fuck !.....greetings from London, the one in England.
Queens accent = Janice from Friends
thats what i thought
I thought of Fran Drescher, lol
Natalia c
You Got It😂😂
OH...MY....GOD!!!!
Natalia c Exactly what I was thinking
The accents really depend upon nationality (sort of like Boston)...there's the Irish New York, the Italian New York, the Jewish New York, Black New York, Latino New York, Lace Curtain Irish, Upper Class Irish Catholic, Old New York German Jewish. Almost nobody but a native New Yorker can nail 'em.
The Italian New York. Me!
Facts
Brooklyn sicilian
Those are ethnicities not nationalities but yessir
I got mad respect for you B!!!
Bronx = Chazz Palminteri.
Brooklyn = Elderly Jewish woman.
Queens = Fran Drescher.
Staten Island = George Costanza's mom.
Manhattan (probably the most accurate one) = White chick from the Lower East Side.
Hahaha! !! lmao so true
XD
Lol George Costanza's mom.
Fran Drescher 😂😂😂
White Blogger Black Specs She really is from Queens
Anyone else wish she had said "Chandler Bing!" in the Brooklyn accent?
+Taylor Craft or oh my god
I think it would’ve been better in the Queens accent!
I'm not even American, but a good American friend of mine says I speak with a mix of Manhattan and Brooklyn accent, lol. He says it's so good that it's hard at times to tell I don't even live in the US.
Queens!
That's Mrs. Chanandler Bong to you.
She sounded like Lois from family guy at 1:05 lol
And Janice from Friends
Andrew Soto you beat me to it
Andrew Soto i thought that too
Andrew Soto
Thinking the same exact thing
HAHAHAHAHA
I almost wet myself laughing listening to this. I grew up on Long Island for the first eleven years of life before moving to So California. I have relatives in all five boroughs and YOU NAILED IT!!!!
You are correct, I'm doing old school Brooklyn, a lot of these accents have migrated east to Long Island. Brooklyn is now more diverse but they still love their vowels! :)
Yup, migrated to Long Island. It's fascinating, isn't it. But the old school Brooklyn accent is still there in Brooklyn too. In the earlier part of when I lived there, (1997-2014), there were even still some old fellas who spoke in the even older old school "toidy toid and toid" accent. I didn't know that still existed in living people and I remember passing a couple of these guys and trying not to look too wide-eyed.
I'm from Queens and I about died when she did this accent! LMAO I can't! She did a good job with all the accents. I'd have to say I sound the most like the "Manhattan" voice ... "5,000 cups of coffee so I'll get back to ya *.* " hahahahaha!
as a Bronx native, she did us right lol
So Lois Griffin has got to be from Queens XD
hahahaha yes I laughed at that
hers is a Boston accent
+Shaun Gordon really? i feel she's more of a queens kinda woman
+G -WM Well, they're in Rhode Island which is in the New England region.
PEE-TAH
rarely I find people who sound like that in new york and when I do it's hilarious. Also when I leave new york everyone says I have a new yorker accent but in new york everyone says I have a weird accent and constantly ask where I was born....which was new york, where I lived all my life.
story of my fucking life
😂😂😂 Hi-Five Queens Born New Yorker, moved to FL at 25 Now accent too Southern back home and I'm automatically "from New York" down here. Double Lol at the Queens accent because I am guilty 😂😂😂
Diziyer25
Queens born too :D
Seal Girl I sound "weird" in Queens and like a New Yorker in Cali lol
We're ALL OVER!! 😂😂😂😂 My Sunday included trying to use Google Voice to type up a document to save time.... 90% success ...all the time I spent correcting words after I was done, not even counting the medical terms. * forehead slap * 😂😂😂😂
This really isn't very accurate, people in the five boroughs do not speak that differently. What she's described are accents of social classes Bronx (lower class) Brooklyn (upper middle class) Queens (working class) Staten Island (middle class) and Manhattan (upper class). Also, these are mostly accents of white people, African Americans and Latinos usually speak differently.
I totally agree Larry.
100 percent agree
Bronx isn't that bad, c'mon I really wish people would stop acting like if step one toe into the Bronx you're gonna get hit with a flaming brick. The Puerto Rican/Dominican girls that I know that live in the Bronx have a very...laid back accent. Like their accents are very lol I guess lazy would be the word? Maybe you pronounce the consonants maybe you don't, maybe you make your vowels sound different...if thats your thing... hehehe
SmoochBoosh Never let them know how nice the Bronx is or it will be over-run like Astoria and you will have to move. Keep The New York Botanical
Garden, City Island, Arthur Avenue, The Bronx Zoo, Wave Hill, and Van Cortland Park to yourselves.
Mary Finn True. Very. True. Brooklyn used to be quite the little gem, then hipster artists found out its cheaper than the Village and the rest is history.
As someone from Westchester who spent a lot of time in the city growing up (mostly the Bronx, Staten Island and Manhattan) this is exaggerated for effect but pretty spot on. The big thing with NY accents is that almost no one is 100% pure because almost everybody in the city travels a good deal within the five burroughs. Like my aunt was raised in the Bronx and lived most of her adult life on Staten Island so her accent is different from my cousin who was raised in Staten Island but works in Manhattan.
This is truth
On. Point. Made me smile. Anyone who gets offended or “corrects” this video needs to go find their sense of humor. I ❤️ NY
"There's a pain living in Queens, cause it's so boring" hahahaha!!
Hi, vigwig, I think you've done a good job with your differentiations of the accents of the five boroughs! I like your insights on the underlying reasons for the subtle distinctions between these local accents. I'm from Red Hook and many years ago had realized that slight differences in accent can be heard even between areas that are very close to each other! I'm sure it's changing rapidly now, but there was a time when accents were very distinct to one's own neighborhood. Nicely done.
The first time I realized my parents had a Bronx was years after they passed away and I heard them talk on a video tape my sister had made. Not having heard their voices for a long time the accent, especially my mother's, really knocked me for a loop. Didn't sound anything like I remembered. Having been told many times about my Bronx accent and being proud of being from there, I wondered, if after living outside the Bronx for over 30 years if I might have lost it, until one day I was speaking to someone on the phone for the first time and she asked me if I was from the Bronx. MADE MY DAY!!!
Nailed it from a classic perspective. Yes, the whole immigrant thing does neutralize some of this but it's very spot on. Archie Bunker lived with Edith in Queens and your rendition of the Queens accent is so precise, it's scary. The Chazz Palminteri character in "A Bronx Tale" is also perfectly in line with these renditions. Brooklyn is perfect and so is Manhattan. I love what you did here. It took me back to my childhood. Brava to you!
I read decades back that Archie was based on Yonkers...da Boyd sittin' on da coib....or whatever....
I live in Queens most of my life. No one in Queens sounds like Edit or Fran Drescher.
There was another video on New York accents that was correct. There really isn't a distinct New York accent by borough. I agree with the comment above, it's more by nationality, the Italian-New York accent, the Puerto Rican-New York accent, Jewish-New York accent.
Apparently it was actually 1920's Brooklynese tho.
Janice? Is that you :O
LOL! i LOVE This comment.
janice who
from friends
Lol Queens isn't boring... and it's mostly old and middle-aged people that talk like that in Queens, that accent is extremely rare with young people.
word she don't know.
queens is action Bronson
I’m 17 and I have that Queens accent that she demonstrates. Well it’s not so exaggerated. But it’s pretty obvious.
As someone who loves the uniqueness of accents, I hate how regional and area accents are just kinda dying in the wake of this generically dull midwestern/SoCali one.
@@foodreviews3454 Well he said, it's rare among younger people. That doesn't mean they all don't speak with that accent. There are some who do. They're just not as many.
Omfg that queens accent slayed me alive I can’t breathe even I’m dying over here. 😂
This is one of my favorite videos on TH-cam. I seen it years ago when it came out and just loved it. And it popped up in my recommended videos so I watched it again lol 10 years later!!
This is absolutely first rate!!! I am almost 80 years old, born and raised in NYC and this vid is the best !!!
Its always these 2 minute clips from 10 years ago that make you happy
Oh my gosh I lAUGHED SO HARD. I AM FRO,M MANHATTAN AND THIS WAS JUST GREAT, REALLY SPECIFIC TO EACH BORO. THANK YOU!
I didn't know what to expect with this but when she started doing the Brooklyn accent she sounded like a higher pitched version of my grandma
lol the queens one sounds like george costanza's mom
..who was from queens
Don't come back unless you bring me grand children!!
Oh my God oh my God this is incredible. YOU are incredible. How have I never found this before when I routinely listen to accent videos?! Good grief this was a utter pleasure. Thank you thank you thank you.
Oh...wait, apparently I have seen it before? I see my likes here and there. Well, NOT a measure of how memorable this is, but rather the extreme stress I've been under. But it was LIKE discovering it for the first time, which is pretty great. So my comment stands. : )
This vids is genuinely nice, truly fun to watch.
Maybe this is what helps define the world's greatest cities. Paris has about 5 accents, even a hilarious tough-guy one used in cartoons and gangster films. Let's hear from London.
Rating, as a sociologist, I give this 10 out of 10. Mainly because it's a quick summary, done without judging. And, as we see from the thousands of comments, a perfect basis for discussion: that within borough accents there are variations depending on ethnicity, age, class and education. Accents within accents within accents.
Thank you and Bravo!
Love your rendition of the five boroughs. I grew up in Nassau, my father grew up in the Bronx. That Bronx accent reminds me of my aunts and uncles, although I suspect some of them of exaggerating their accent just to be funny.
I've been in Southern California since 1986, sometimes feel a little homesick for Long Island and the New York area.
Thank you. This is something I've always wondered about. I can hear the difference when they're spoken side by side. But not being from NYC I wonder if I could tell some of them apart listening to them on their own. You did a good job distinguishing them. This was great.
When these accents are gone, this video will be playing on loop at a museum
I’m from Brooklyn and I can’t deny this. Even in Brooklyn theirs different accents .
I wish you could give some examples, like Coney vs. Fort Greene or Red Hook vs. Brownsville.
OMG!!! When you did the Brooklyn accent I laughed so hard my dog started to bark at me. LOVE this video. Masticate your vowels...that was priceless.
Completely accurate.....if youre an older jewish woman
Hahahahha
Queens in the building!
Is there a pain, as she said?
@@nox7282 hell no we’re the worlds borough queens is lit, a lot of people hate on us
I love how you mimic the accents! Sounds so real!!
Loved this. My daughter wanted to know what a New York accent sounded like and your videos was perfect.
da boogie down bronx#1 my hood
Same 👍💪
Yup.
NADIRA DUTT YEAH
Y'all don't speak like that in this video tho lol
Boogie down Bronxxx
I got a kick out of this, but puleeez...Queens is NOT boring!
I'm a 37 almost 38 yr old Italian guy born & raised in BENSONHURST BROOKLYN N.Y.
Ok, listen to me people..... if your not from 1 of the 5 boroughs or your never around anybody who is from 1 of the boroughs, DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THIS LADY! That is NOT what we (especially us BROOKLYNITES) sound like AT ALL! ....Yes we do have a 1-OF-A-KIND & EXTREMELY UNIQUE ACCENT w/ our own SPECIAL SLANG (& F**K'N PROUD OF IT!). This lady's not totally wrong, she DEFINITELY has the
"Jewish" N.Y.C./5 Boroughs accent DOWN TO A TEE, but that's NOT what ALL Native N.Y.ers sound like! ......All I'm sayin' is this lady should really just Rename the title of her video so she doesn't mislead or confuse the rest of America about N.Y.C.!
WAIT, so the brooklyn accent is not an italian accent? ive met many jews in brooklyn, and they speak regular american accent... i imagine the old people like bernie sanders are only speaking with brooklyn jewish accent.
From queens born and raised
Completely agree
Yeah, it's definitely just the Jewish accents that she was doing.
I just read your whole comment with Andrew Dice Clay’s voice.
I called California recently with a question about ordering merchandise. The girl on the phone asked: Where are you from? I said, "New York City__Staten Island". She laughed and said, "I know, I can tell by your accent".
Are New Yorkers really that identifiable? lol
Yes! Many of you, at least.
OMG! This is so right on point, it is absolutely hilarious. Truly, one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TH-cam. When creating something humorous, the closer the joke is to factual truth, the funnier it is. You have certainly succeeded here. Hilarious and clever beyond words. Too perfect!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it.
it's funny that every accent sounds like it's from the jewish perspective - I say that as a fellow native. Just scrolled down to see I'm not alone in that thought.
Brooklyn is sing song. It is. LOL. You sounded like every single one of my elderly female Jewish and Italian neighbors growing up. haha.
great job. thanks!
This is awful. She found one ethnic enclave , picked a stereotypical rendition of that accent . Then did variations of it for each borough.
I am from Brooklyn myself and this is incredibly accurate. I will say that it does depend a little bit on what part of each borough you are from.
Hi Vigwig, got a hoot out of this. Rain sent us a link to the NYT article. Wonderful that you and Dudley got well-deserved recognition! Donald and Debbie
lol, the Manhattan one reminds me of a friend.
and manhattan kids still talk like this -- busy city
I’m from the capital region and I sound like the Manhattan one..
The 2nd one sound like Lorna Morello on OITNB
She does, by her own admission, a hybrid of Brooklyn and Boston.
I love it! I always wondered about the different accents around New York City. Blows my mind to have such variety in one city!
its actually unsettling how accurate the staten island 1 is. it gave me chills
Representing Flushing Queens in the hoooouuuussse!
this sounds more like if you're doing cartoon characters rather than normal people accent
Thanks! Please keep in mind that I am exaggerating differences for comedic effect. The amount of nasality, consonant/vowel use etc. varies and blends depending what part of the borough one is in but yes Queens generally is rather nasal. Also I didn't attempt to do the accents of people of Hispanic background or African Americans as those accents differ. Glad you enjoyed it. :)
Well done!!!! Lived in NY for 30 years and I think you nailed it!
BX accent featured here is Puerto Rican / Italian influenced
BK accent featured is Italian influenced
Queens accent featured is Irish / Jewish influenced
SI accent is Irish influenced
As for Manhattan, it is corporate influenced.
This sounds very old school. I doubt you'll here many people with these accents in New York any more.
it is accurate for 30 years ago too many transplants here now!
If you are from New York, then speak with a new York accent. Don't speak with a standard American accent, that's boring. Keep ny culture alive and speak with the accent.
this is hysterically funny! right on point!!!!! I am curious to see this persons face!
Google Amy Walker, seeing her do accents live is even more hilarious!!!
These were Jewish people
Yeah, this guy gets it lmao
Lol right
But NYC used to be more Jewish. It is accurate if she is doing 30 years ago or so.
Fonzie was Bronx
Carla was Staten
The Nanny was Queens
Elaine was Manhattan
Can't think of a Brooklyn character. N E 1?
I am a Staten Islander born and raised. Absolutely loved this video . . . fugeddaboutit!
Lmao I found that joke about Staten Island so funny due to the fact that I live in Jersey lmaoooo omg.
Queens- Fran Drescher and Edith Bunker.
Brooklyn's accent sounds like Danny Devito's wife-Rhea Pearlman :D
I moved to Manhattan from the Midwest and worked at a company with people of all races and social status. It was fascinating to listen to them all.
Everything I never thought I needed to know about the accents from the Boroughs.
Well now we no where Louis is from of family guy
Bowstan
Jeez are you illiterate or something?
I'm from flushing queens and i do not speak like that 😂😂😂the Manhattan one was accurate tho
`This is brilliant and spot on - but like others have said, it's more like variations on the regional old school Jewish accents of NYC. Ethnicity is everything in NY accents - much stronger influence than boro - and traditionally each ethnic group retained some tones/flavor from the mother tongue. Plus everyone gets influenced by everyone else and it all blends and mutates constantly.
NYC was murdered in the 1990s and is just a shadow of the real city of legend. But in 2015 Queens and the Bronx are the last bastions of reality - the rest is Disneyland.
Great video!
+Pete Nyce ,
"NYC was murdered in the 1990s"
Care to explain that?
+Quabledistocficklepo Sure - from the 1840s through the mid 1990s there existed a city call New York. New York City was a wild, ungovernable, seething mass of impoverished immigrants and newcomers who came to escape their native towns and live in single most diverse, deviant, and criminal city the world had ever known. NYC was the most important center of every type of business, art, and vice in the US, and in many ways the most powerful city in the world through the 20th century. There was nothing remotely like it anywhere else on earth. The city was controlled from the streets up and the powers that be had to constantly juggle different ethnic coalitions while allowing the city to be run by street level organized crime - First the Irish, then the Italian/Jewish alliance known as the Mob. NYC was a cheap place to live - a place anyone could come to and survive. NYC was a town in which the rich and poor shared everything and mingling block by block - and a city in which the poor so outnumbered the rich that the latter had to mind their manners.
In the mid 90s secret deals were cut which unleashed the always corrupt NYPD and turned the city over to a backroom coaliton of real estate interests. In the years since the city has been transformed into a bastion of 1% yuppie privilege as corrupt foreign money from all over the world has flooded in to buy up real estate and push out New Yorkers. The city that stands where NYC used to stand is a yuppie disneyland now run by corporate organized crime. No one creative can afford to live there anymore. What was once a place most of the world feared and people moved to to escape conformity is now the exact opposite - a place the dullest and most ambitious yuppies eagerly flock to. A place that looks little different from any shopping mall in the world.
Bottom line is - if you were ever in the real NYC you wouldn't have to ask what I mean. Totally different places.
+Pete Nyce Very nice history lesson. I often visited relatives in Queens (and toured the city) in the '60s and up into the '00s. A sizable, rent-controlled, two-bedroom apartment in Sunnyside: $500/month. Coming from a Midwestern suburban b.g., my brother and I found it raw and a little threatening, but exciting. Old Times Square was the best (as a young adult). The degenerates. The hookers. The sex shows. The porn.
+Pete Nyce Well, to me, Brooklyn os Disneyland, never liked to go to Brooklyn lol.
Love it! Born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens - I can vouch for it, ya know?
QUEENS IS NOT BORING it's so underrated damn
It's ironic that you don't have to be in ny to hear a ny accent. You can fly all the way to California and hear the ny accents there!
lol I know this is an old post but I can confirm this. I live in San Diego and my boyfriend is from Brooklyn. I could listen to that accent all day lol 😉
Ain't no one from queens speak like that and it mostly depends the type a neighborhood u from more than the borough
Yeah people who speak that way moved to Nassau and beyond.
Wonderful! You have a great ear, this is fantastic. Thanks
I love it. Vig is funny. The very rushed Manhattan accent is hilarious.
if you're not from NY, this is not really what we sound like. She's doing some variations of different types of jewish new yorkers but there's plenty of different variations depending on race, nationality, culture, religion and sex. And like anywhere else there's people with a wide range of thickness in their accents. There's also not really a difference in the boroughs except staten islanders usually have thicker accents I think cause we forget about them and they gotta make sure everyone knows they're there idk
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Brooklyn at 0:40 sounds exactly like the mom on Matilda the movie.
This was most fascinating to an English girl like me 😐
I LOVE THIS!!! For someone who lives hours away from NYC, I really never have been able to quite figure out the make up of NYC. I've only been in Manhattan a couple of times (e.g., to see Sinatra at Carnegie), I was briefly on Staten Island once many many years ago to tune a piano before I retired from that business (I lived for a brief 12 years in NJ), and I traveled through Brooklyn on my way to Hauppauge (Long Island) for less than two months on a temporary job commute. I don't think I could live in any of the boroughs, as I like open spaces. But, I have always loved the accents. They have character to them. Although vigwig states that these are not representative of everyone, it really does help me have a better understanding. And, though the video was done with tongue-in-cheek, I have an idea that The Bronx just might very well be a tough place. From my brief time on Long Island, I believe that the folks in Brooklyn and those on Long Island share similar "chewing on their vowels". At least one of my favorite supervisors, who was from Long Island, munched on her vowels. :) Thank you, vigwig.
Musicman2012Now Long Island and Brooklyn accent are similar because many Long Islanders are from Brooklyn or their families lived in Brooklyn.
operamusicfan Thank you, operamusicfan.
I'm crying!! This was so on point and funny! Hahahahaha wish it was longer.
this is so incorrect! I'm from queens and we don't talk like that at all
This is old school accents fool
@@scared_frr it's called sarcasm fool
Queens accent sounds like Janice, Chandler's ex from Friends
People from queens do not talk like that
Listen to niki Minaj then if you feel that way
Sofiane Ford yes they do. Those that don’t are the “new comers” fresh off the boat from third world countries.
Wow, that's awesome! I'm obsessed with accents and this is new knowledge to me. Nice video, thanx
I'm from Rego Park, so I enjoyed the Queens accent very much. Reminded me of the Jewish women in my building that always reprimanded me for either running in the lobby or walking through the grass area in front of the building. Thanks for sharing.
The poorest of the imitations was Da Bronx, as a Bronxite, I know
Mskine les gens qui ont les accents comme ca
Manhattan has the best accent out of all the ones here. :)
+DemocraticGoddess It sounds the most like "standard " American English or Midwestern.
DeplorableGoddess very true.really true.
I’m from Manhattan and think it’s fun to hear SI ppl’s accents, LI too.
That was really pretty good. I was born & raised in Manhattan but I do an excellent Brooklyn accent that everyone finds hilarious. Queens is hard to do but you nailed it. I have an elderly neighbor from Bronx and OMG you got that exactly right.I know what you mean about Manhattan but I can think of a thousand exceptions. I know some very lazy, laid back-sounding natives, they seem exhausted in a way. And many go out of their way to sound like they are from CT... maybe for career reasons. Don't forget, it used to be kind of a bad neighborhood and you didn't want to sound like a New Yorker during an interview. After you are hired, then okReally rich Manhattanites like Jackie Kennedy and Gloria Vanderbilt have a totally unique way of speaking but oddly enough I can hear the NYKer, esp Jackie.... it's hard to put your finger on. It would be awesome if you could attempt that one. Posh Manhattan old school. I can spot it from a mile away but it's incredibly hard to imitate.
Hey, Queens here. It's not boring. There are plenty of things to do in Queens. We have great restaurants and stadiums. Where is the US Open? In Queen! And we have Citi Field. Brooklyn doesn't have a ballpark. We're closer to the beaches than Brooklyn and Manhattan. We can hop over the bridge if we want to go upstate or into the city. We're closer to the airport than the other boroughs. It's the perfect place to live. Wouldn't live anywhere else in New York. And you're taking the Queens accent from Fran Drescher? Hardly anyone in Queens talks like Fran Drescher.
She sounds like Mort Goldman
As a girl from Queens that accent at least from where I'm from South Queens....we sound ghetto....like this is some stereotypical Jewish person like you see in the movies NYC accents....
This was very entertaining and funny. Finally someone got da BRONX accent pretty good, you know? ... :-) ...... Seriously though, most borough accents sound a lot like each other these days.
This mad me laugh, I am of Puerto Rican descent and grew up on the lower west side of Manhattan, love it.
This was a wonderful, quick synopsis of the New York City accent. I never thought of breaking it down by Burroughs.