Coming from a life-long Bergen County resident, this is spot-on. To everyone who disagrees, she did specify that she was mainly referring to the Northeast. She's not saying that people sound like this near New Brunswick or down by Philly, but it describes this area very well.
i lived in bergen county for 28 years. my whole life. 95% of the people i know do not speak like this. def not a north jersey thing. the only people ive ever heard consistently speak with that accent are from central jersey or perhaps new york city. All of my cousins speak like that and they live down around Manalapan and Monmouth. i disagree with you sir.
jay mundo Okay, where did you live: Franklin, Upper Saddle River, or Ridgeweood? lol. If you're local, you're already on to what I'm talking about. Regardless of which town you're from, it is absolutely a socio.economic feature rather than geographical. Go just ONE town next from Ridgewood High School (wealthy) to Paramus High School (not as wealthy) and suddenly.. Badda bing, badda boom. Hackensack, Fair Lawn.. these are all Bergen County, but this accent is absolutely dominant. Passaic County, the south half, even more, (my God, Wayne Mall? :D very much so). These are all really, really close, and Manalapan is not far at all. It sure seems so to US, when we live in New Jersey, but when you leave NJ and come back... it's damned tiny. Also, the accent becomes much more noticeable to your ears. So, I think you might need to venture out of your town. I know it's "scary", lol, but give it a try. Lots of nice people speak like this.
I live in North Jersey, I have never heard anyone talk like this. I am used to some accents, because of different ethnic background, and I actually have a chinese accent to my jersey accent, but no one I have ever known talks like this
We do talk like this. We just dont realize it. Have someone from a different state or city observe your speech. They will def tell you we sound pretty new yorkish.
My dad side of the family is from Georgia and they don't ask if were from new York they can tell it's a northern accent but they never say new York because we don't talk like Jersey shore people
Lindsey Howell And nobody from South Jersey sounds like that. I've never heard anyone talk like that in New Jersey. Ive been to North Jersey and people still dont sound like that. I do agree that there is a bit of a nasal sound and the tongue is high
Lindsey Howell its just state stereotypes I'm from Texas I sound normal like that women but everyone thinks if your in the south you sound country only small towns most of the time sounds like that cities or major cities sound normal
yeahhh i’m from north jersey and i do have an accent for sure but she wasn’t correct on most of her sounds. like the nasal part of it lol i know nobody who sounds nasally.
@@zoecain123 Yeah, she didnt quite nail it all but she did say there are a range of Jersey dialects. Everyone in Pa nails me when I say ' water'. I say, "wooder"
I was born and raised in North Jersey, in fact, Hudson County, right across the river in the shadow of NYC, Weehawkenites, West New Yorkers, Union City, Hobokenites and even little ass Guttenburg residents know that what this woman is doing is not a North Jersey accent, that's straight up Long Island right there. Although some phrases she uses is similar, that nasally sound is most often associated with Long Islanders. She's close, in the ball park, but not spot on. Not a home run here, maybe...a double at best.
I’m south jersey. If this is what y’all sound like I don’t think I wanna visit, although the accent reminds of my grandma or, step grandma I guess? We hate step grandma.
I’m originally from Hudson County now living in Delaware. I commend this woman for trying to show us how to properly do a NJ accent, but it sounds more Long Island/NY to me.
Everyone in the comments are saying they don't know anyone with this acent, I swear I live in new Jersey and at least in my area a lot of the older people talk like this.
Coming from California I live in jersey and a bunch of my relatives do speak like this, I point it out to them all the time and they always say “we don’t Tualk like thiat” lol
I grew up in Ocean County, NJ and I have that accent, also alot of people down here are originally from North Jersey and New York so you do hear the accent alot .
You are pretty accurate. I'm born and raised in North Jersey, Bergen County to be exact, and we sound more like New Yorkers and we talk at a brisk clip. When I go to South Jersey though, people sound like they are from Philly and most talk slower. It's refreshing to see someone who actually recognizes New Jersey's diverse accent ranges and doesn't assume that we all talk like Tony Soprano or Snookie.
Thank you soooo much for the info on NJ accent! I'm a huge Bon Jovi fan and have been wondering why Jon Bon Jovi pronounces often with "t" accent like British accent and why he pronounces words like southern states (nasal sound). Now the mystery has been solved! Again, thanks so much for this information! You rock!!!!
This is New York, I've been a New Yorker my whole life... parents, and grandparents from Queens.. great grand parents came from ireland... This is how we talk.... I say TAAAAWWWWWK...... Cawwwwww-feeeeeee...... for the word wash I say awwwwwshhh instead of oshhh.. yeah right, floridian teaching us lol
I am from North Jersey--12 min for the George Washington Bridge--and she nailed the accent. I almost laughed out loud because she sounds just like my mother.
I supposed it depends on where you are in North Jersey and your proximity to the city. My town had a direct train into the city and everyone basically work there, so we had a lot of New York accents in my family as well as in my town
All y'all saying that no one talks like this, but y'all don't realize that this is how characters from new Jersey sound like when it comes to theatre. (For example, any of the adult villians in Annie, any character from Guys and Dolls...)
I live in New Jersey and it is true about what you said about having a wide range of accents. Hoboken and surrounding area are more New Yorky while south Jersey area is much different. It’s a weird state
I’m from Monmouth County and this is a pretty common accent for us, probably with some Staten Island influence. I definitely have some of these nuances in my speech pattern
This is more of a Hudson county accent. Seacaucus Jersey City Hoboken. You mostly get your accent from your parents. Not from where you're from also that's why everyone differs.
This tutorial showed how to "speak" like someone from New Jersey and how to "approach" someone with a NJ accent. But take it from a person who lives in NJ - just talk like a normal human and don't make yourself sound like a monotone duck with strep throat :)
I live in central Jersey, so there's a lot of cross over from New York, and Philly accents. Here, most people I know say "wooder" or "wadder" instead of water, "pellow" instead of pillow "san'wich" instead of sandwich and "Tren'en" instead of Trenton. There aren't many people who put that much emphasis on the 'a' sound in words. Those who do are usually middle age to older italians which aren't too common in this part of the state anymore.
Central jersey doesn't exist. Your North Jersey. Lakewood could be considered South Jersey. Trenton is North Jersey as well. You are the southern most county in North Jersey
Born and raised South Jersey, Gloucester County. I agree with the "wooder" way of pronouncing water for South Jersey. That is totally the way I speak. North Jersey is far different than South Jersey.
JASE Productions as she said , nj is a big place. Just because you might not have this accent doesn't mean many people in jersey don't. I'm from north jersey and work at a bagel shop where 90% of customers come in and order cawfee with an accent much like this.
Do you even live in New Jersey??? Also do you know how offensive it is to hear people imitating your states way of speaking when it's not even true? Have you ever heard of the 1 amendment? " freedom of speech, press, and the right to assemble peacefully. Writing in the comments is freedom of speech and that's not a New Jersey thing to do.
I just feel that however a person who was born and raised in that particular state, that's how that state should be said. And that's for country's, nations and continents! I mean that sounds agreeable, right?
I've lived all around Jersey my entire life, I have a few Aunts that do speak like this. It isn't always a location thing because I grew up in North Jersey & although a lot of us do use some "aw" sounds... It's not as dramatic as she is impersonating. I also feel like it may be a generational thing, because a lot of my much older relatives & family friends & my friend's older relatives tend to sound more like this. In my own opinion I feel like a lot of us sound different depending on what exit you're from & how far south or north you are in Jersey.
I visited Hudson County from Canada and I could hear, as you say, a low key version of this accent in some individuals. I think the high level of recent immigrants and internal US migration to the region means there is a wide variety of accents in the area.
You haven't been to downtown JC in the Italian village much bc the old timers have a way thicker accent than the woman in the footage. It depends in what part of JC you live in but if you are in a neighborhood of working class whites, particularly, the pre baby boomers, then you will notice the thick Hudson County accent, it's reminiscent of NYC' Al Smith.
I lived in down town Jersey City all of my life and everyone here in the old Italian neighborhood spoke with thick accents and most of these people never lived in NYC. But you didn't grow up in the Italian village so you wouldn't know.
I live in Hudson County also and everyone speaks like that over here. I guess it's because I live in an Italian-Hispanic community that's blocks away from NYC
Truthfully, there’s even a difference from West to East northern NJ. Cawfee and dawg are still a thing here in northwest NJ, but I think because we are so close to the PA border, it’s not AS nasally. I hear more coming from the chest, especially when we’re tired or frustrated.
That's actually pretty sport on. I'm from bergen county. The thing with a jersey accent is that I could say coffee "normal" one time and then the next time say it cawfee.
My husband was raised in the same north jersey area as I was and our accents are totally different. He sounds like New York and I sound like like a softer version of the woman in the video.
This is New York, I've been a New Yorker my whole life... parents, and grandparents from Queens.. great grand parents came from ireland... This is how we talk.... I say TAAAAWWWWWK...... Cawwwwww-feeeeeee...... for the word wash I say awwwwwshhh instead of oshhh
Some people on this thread are so bias it's pathetic. The video isn't suggesting every single person talks like this. It's telling you how to do a typical nj accent which does sound very similar to that. In addition to nyc boroughs, many of the same immigrant groups who started this accent came to northern nj cities like Newark Jersey City and Paterson and that's part of the reason it's also called an "nj accent" I grew up in northern nj and many people up here have some form of that accent whether they realize it or not. What most people in northern nj sound like is your typical suburban middle American accent, especially the younger generation. But those of you saying you've never heard anyone talk like this I'm sorry but if you live in Bergen Essex Union Hudson or Passaic and haven't heard this accent you must live under a rock.
Some words I pronounce differently than people the way they talk.for example,I try pronounce a word,coffee but I sounded like I said " cawfee".I don't say ",wooder",I said "wadder" instead saying water.my sister's word pronounce "cot" instead of ",caught".
Geez, lots of anger here. My mom grew up in Essex county and she and all of my aunts sound *exactly* like this. Yes, a lot of people in Jersey speak in a non-regional way, maybe most of us. That doesn't mean this accent she is teaching doesn't exist.
Yeah, I grew up in suburban central Jersey and I most people don't talk like this, but the ones who do REALLY do. I like how she nailed the subtle differences bw NY and NJ accents.
I'm from central jersey and I had to laugh because I didnt know I had an accent. I do say Florida just the way she describes. Now I know why everyone always corrects me when I say cauliflower...Cute.
Jerry Lewis (Of Blessed Memory) was born & raised in Newark, New Jersey. I heard him in an Interview about how he created the Character of Julius Kelp in "The Nutty Professor". He said that as a child, he was enthralld by Spencer Tracey in "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde". He pronounced "enthralled" as: ....... "entrawled" !
We saw "aw" for anything ending in 'all' like bawl mawl etc even cawfee, I say. Water, I say wattah...anything in "er" makes an "ah" sound. Unless you're Italian-American (white), you might have the nasal-y speech but generally it's not like that. #bornandraised
This is pretty accurate! I like how you mentioned that it is a softer accent...and also, how they do keep the final "r" sound at the end of the word. Nobody (except people who live in NYC - Brooklyn, Queens, S.I.) drops the "r" - this includes Long Island and New Jersey. This is a huge misconception! However, we definitely ALL stress the "aw" sound in our words - no matter where in NY/NY you are from. The nasal quality reminds me more of Queens than anything, and is more ethnic than anything.
I’m from Elizabeth New Jersey (Northern) and never meet someone who speaks like this. Honestly, when you hear someone like this, it’s someone from New York who moved to New Jersey.
I'm from North Jersey and someone from out of state commented that I don't sound like I'm from Jersey bc I don't sound anything like the people from all of those stereotypical jersey movies/shows..I said "Thank you!"
can't speak for everybody, cuz i do sound like this and i didn't notice it til highschool, i was born and raised in the jersey city,met people out of state, and it was proven to me. and all in all a jersey accent isn't that horrible o.o i cant see why it seems so offense to so many people.
I'm from north jersey right by newark, for the most part she on point, when I heard the 'animal' thing she was but new york has a different accent then ours but then again almost everyone has different accents
Ok guys I’m going against the crowd right now, I’ve been to New Jersey and this is very (from my experience) accurate. I’m not sure why this is “inaccurate” but whatever
I’m from north NJ and the only accent part I have that she mentioned was the “aw” sounds. Other than that, I believe not everyone spoke almost like a New Yorker.
I probably just can’t hear it but I’ve lived in nj my whole life and I have no accent but I want one and idk why I wouldn’t have one I live outside of the city with parents that have accents too
We don't actually sound like that. Whatever accent we did have in North Jersey will be lost soon anyways since we have more and more people moving in that cant afford to live in Manhattan.
Things this lady missed (coming from a Jersey girl with a father born and raised in Jersey City): 1. Something - “sum-thin” 2. Idea - “i-dear” 3. I don’t say “marry” like that - I say “M-AIR-y”, and it’s no different than saying “Mary”. However, “merry” is like saying “M-ER-y,” 4. To me, it’s really more about the slang. “Jughandle”, “Benny”, etc. ESPECIALLY “jughandle”, because you gonna be hearing that a lot if you ask directions. So, you better know what a jughandle is. 5. I don’t say “Florida” the way she does. I say, “FLOOR-da.” 6. It all depends on what part of Jersey you’re from. Like if you’re from south Jersey, you’re not gonna be talking like this. To me, they sound like they’re from the southern states only not as strong. If you’re from Trenton, you gonna be sounding more like you’re from PA. If you’re from north Jersey, you MIGHT sound like this person in the video. MIGHT. But if you’re from Jersey City or Newark, you’re gonna be sounding like you’re from Brooklyn or NYC, but not as nasally or sing-songy. If you’re from mid Jersey, your voice is very basic, but you don’t go around saying “coffee” like “CAAHH-FEE”. Only your “c-awww-feee” is softer than that from someone from say Jersey City. 7. We drop a lot of “G’s” at the end of the verb sentences. Like up here, where say, “if you’re from Trenton, you’re gonna be sounding like…”, if I said that in person, it would sound like: “If you from Trenton, you gonna be sounding’ like you from Pennsylvan-i-yahr or sum-thin.” 🤪 My dad’s from Jersey City, so that’s why I “tawk” like that. Force of habit or something. Example: “I’m not doin’ that.” 8. We kind of blend our words. Like here in Jersey, instead of, “Hey. How are you doing?”, we say, “Hey! How-you-doin’?” But that’s more Jersey City. Lol 9. I rarely hear anyone here say “doesn’t.” We say “don’t” a lot. Like “This dress doesn’t fit me.” would be “This dress don’t fit me.” “Any” is replaced a lot with “no.” Example: “I don’t have any money.” is “I don’t have no money.” Or if you wanna go all out Jersey City: “I don’t got no money.” My go-to is “I don’t have no….Blah Blah Blah.” I honestly don’t think we have accents. I mean, I guess to some we do. Like if guess you’re from Alabama or something, we have accents? But then again, I’m so used to hearing how we talk, it really don’t dawn on me. 😅
Howcast should be renamed to HowCrap. I live in New Jersey, and more specifically North Jersey. You can't get anymore north than where I live. This woman has NO clue what she's talking about. When I saw this video and heard her "make a 'New Jersey' accent", I'm like what's up with these duck sounds??? Nobody in my area speaks in the monotone duck quack this Howcast woman is making. In fact, she said she's from Florida? Wow... Who would've guessed considering her normal "accent" was just everyone else in northern New Jersey.
For the most, she got it correct. However, Hudson County, NJ is very similar to NYC in that it does drop the "r" off the end of words. Mother becomes Mothah. Father becomes Fathah. Car becomes cah. Four becomes fouh.
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I'm from Florida but my step dad is from Rhode Island and I've lived with him for about 5-6 years and I recently noticed a change in my voice. For instance I used to say "coffee" as in cah-fee but now I say cwo-fee. And "walk" for me was wah-k but now I say "woh-k"
How to do a New Jersey accent: Have your parents raise you in New Jersey.
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I WAS BORN IN NEW JERSEY AND I DOMT HAVE THE ACCENT AND I littery was raised and still is raised in new jersey and im 9 and i dont have the accent wtf
@@Moony_Boy69 I know, lol I'm from NJ
@Buttercups same
Coming from a life-long Bergen County resident, this is spot-on. To everyone who disagrees, she did specify that she was mainly referring to the Northeast. She's not saying that people sound like this near New Brunswick or down by Philly, but it describes this area very well.
Union County and I'd say this accurate to its a north jersey thing lol.
i lived in bergen county for 28 years. my whole life. 95% of the people i know do not speak like this. def not a north jersey thing. the only people ive ever heard consistently speak with that accent are from central jersey or perhaps new york city. All of my cousins speak like that and they live down around Manalapan and Monmouth. i disagree with you sir.
jay mundo Okay, where did you live: Franklin, Upper Saddle River, or Ridgeweood? lol. If you're local, you're already on to what I'm talking about. Regardless of which town you're from, it is absolutely a socio.economic feature rather than geographical. Go just ONE town next from Ridgewood High School (wealthy) to Paramus High School (not as wealthy) and suddenly.. Badda bing, badda boom. Hackensack, Fair Lawn.. these are all Bergen County, but this accent is absolutely dominant. Passaic County, the south half, even more, (my God, Wayne Mall? :D very much so). These are all really, really close, and Manalapan is not far at all. It sure seems so to US, when we live in New Jersey, but when you leave NJ and come back... it's damned tiny. Also, the accent becomes much more noticeable to your ears. So, I think you might need to venture out of your town. I know it's "scary", lol, but give it a try. Lots of nice people speak like this.
I lived in NJ for 26 years. NO ONE speaks like this.
The cast of the Jersey Shore is not your family and neighbors, stop acting like they are.
This is not spot on at all, unless the people you hang with are Italians from Long Island
I think she did a great job. I've lived in NJ all my life. I was from exit 132 and now at 117 and she got me down completely
I love how you’re locating yourself by parkway exits😂 no question to your validity
114 > 117
@@marinecorp179 137 & 138 the best
@@DrFudis nah you a benny lol
SAME
I live in northern N.J. and I've meet one person in my whole life who talks like this.
Sofia Nolfo ikr! nobody talks like that.. maybe the Florida one but meh
Sofia Nolfo I live in Northern NJ and a lot of my teachers talk like this. A long with a lot of the cops
Lol where do you live
Sofia Nolfo Same same
I live in North Jersey, I have never heard anyone talk like this. I am used to some accents, because of different ethnic background, and I actually have a chinese accent to my jersey accent, but no one I have ever known talks like this
I’m from New Jersey and I can’t even do this accent
Youre not from North Jersey
Same, and I wanna do it for fun
I don't think people are aware of their accents tho
@@ilerioluwakinshiladipo-dan5493 I’m aware of it. In fact I was surprised to how she got it. Mostly I think my teachers had these accents tho
yes you do
We do talk like this. We just dont realize it. Have someone from a different state or city observe your speech. They will def tell you we sound pretty new yorkish.
Exactly, people don't understand how their accent sounds to others.
No honestly it is just a stereotype
I dont recall having heard anyone with this accent tbh when I visited my dad in new jersey
My dad side of the family is from Georgia and they don't ask if were from new York they can tell it's a northern accent but they never say new York because we don't talk like Jersey shore people
It’s true, i moved away from jersey for a bit and when i came back i could instantly tell the slight accent
I'm from Central/North Jersey and no one sounds like that
Lindsey Howell And nobody from South Jersey sounds like that. I've never heard anyone talk like that in New Jersey. Ive been to North Jersey and people still dont sound like that. I do agree that there is a bit of a nasal sound and the tongue is high
Lindsey Howell its just state stereotypes I'm from Texas I sound normal like that women but everyone thinks if your in the south you sound country only small towns most of the time sounds like that cities or major cities sound normal
LindseyIsNotOk exactly
yeahhh i’m from north jersey and i do have an accent for sure but she wasn’t correct on most of her sounds. like the nasal part of it lol i know nobody who sounds nasally.
@@zoecain123 Yeah, she didnt quite nail it all but she did say there are a range of Jersey dialects. Everyone in Pa nails me when I say ' water'. I say, "wooder"
*when you're from North Jersey and no one sounds like that*
Kaitlyn Elizabeth I feel ya
Exactly right
Right
Then youre not actually from North Jersey
Where you from? High Point?
I was born and raised in North Jersey, in fact, Hudson County, right across the river in the shadow of NYC, Weehawkenites, West New Yorkers, Union City, Hobokenites and even little ass Guttenburg residents know that what this woman is doing is not a North Jersey accent, that's straight up Long Island right there.
Although some phrases she uses is similar, that nasally sound is most often associated with Long Islanders. She's close, in the ball park, but not spot on. Not a home run here, maybe...a double at best.
Hudson County has its own accent- very NYish. It disappears at about Englewood or Rutherford and becomes more standard North Jersey.
we prolly crossed each other once 😂
I’m south jersey. If this is what y’all sound like I don’t think I wanna visit, although the accent reminds of my grandma or, step grandma I guess? We hate step grandma.
I’m originally from Hudson County now living in Delaware. I commend this woman for trying to show us how to properly do a NJ accent, but it sounds more Long Island/NY to me.
Could it just be a "Jersey Thing"? Hey, Howl U Doin Overr Therr
Italian New Jersey accent is the popularized Joisey accent she's tawkin about.
Y'all stop hating on it.
Im from Jersey and I never heard anybody talk like this lol
in the 1960s
ASAP Booth if you listen to people from outside jersey you can hear a difference thiugh
Im from NJ and this is exactly how i talk
Moved to Texas for a year and then went back to jersey and i realized that people actually do sound like this
lol same
Everyone in the comments are saying they don't know anyone with this acent, I swear I live in new Jersey and at least in my area a lot of the older people talk like this.
Coming from California I live in jersey and a bunch of my relatives do speak like this, I point it out to them all the time and they always say “we don’t Tualk like thiat” lol
I grew up in Ocean County, NJ and I have that accent, also alot of people down here are originally from North Jersey and New York so you do hear the accent alot .
Yeah I just moved to Neptune and a lot of folks speak like that
I in Jersey and I'm just watching this so I can impersonate a stereotypical accent oops.
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I made a vid for my own how to learn a new accent too if anybody wants to check it out on my channel : )
thank you for anyone has time to view
that's what I'm doing as well :)
honestly haha
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This is 100%. I’m from north Jersey and grew up in NY. My accent spans both these qualities she explained.
You are pretty accurate. I'm born and raised in North Jersey, Bergen County to be exact, and we sound more like New Yorkers and we talk at a brisk clip. When I go to South Jersey though, people sound like they are from Philly and most talk slower. It's refreshing to see someone who actually recognizes New Jersey's diverse accent ranges and doesn't assume that we all talk like Tony Soprano or Snookie.
Thank you soooo much for the info on NJ accent! I'm a huge Bon Jovi fan and have been wondering why Jon Bon Jovi pronounces often with "t" accent like British accent and why he pronounces words like southern states (nasal sound). Now the mystery has been solved! Again, thanks so much for this information! You rock!!!!
menmen tonton guess what my French teacher was part of Bon Jovi 😁😁😁
As a representative of New Jersey I can 100% claim that we don't sound anything like that. It's just a popular stereotype.
@@juststickfig trust me a lot of you do
This is a Brookline accent. Us New Jersians do not speaks anything like that. Go figures though. She's from Florida !?
This is New York, I've been a New Yorker my whole life... parents, and grandparents from Queens.. great grand parents came from ireland... This is how we talk.... I say TAAAAWWWWWK...... Cawwwwww-feeeeeee...... for the word wash I say awwwwwshhh instead of oshhh.. yeah right, floridian teaching us lol
Stay in south jersey
Thank you
At :25 when she said “the tongue is high” I could hear the change and started bawling!
I am from North Jersey--12 min for the George Washington Bridge--and she nailed the accent. I almost laughed out loud because she sounds just like my mother.
I supposed it depends on where you are in North Jersey and your proximity to the city. My town had a direct train into the city and everyone basically work there, so we had a lot of New York accents in my family as well as in my town
All y'all saying that no one talks like this, but y'all don't realize that this is how characters from new Jersey sound like when it comes to theatre. (For example, any of the adult villians in Annie, any character from Guys and Dolls...)
I live in New Jersey and it is true about what you said about having a wide range of accents. Hoboken and surrounding area are more New Yorky while south Jersey area is much different. It’s a weird state
Idk why but listening to her switch between all the accents I been listening to my whole life is so satisfying
I'm British and the NY and NJ accents just sound very very similar to me.
I live in north jersey, about 25-30 min away from the city and I have never heard anyone speak like this.
I’m from Monmouth County and this is a pretty common accent for us, probably with some Staten Island influence. I definitely have some of these nuances in my speech pattern
Im from the Monmouth county too
i'm from monmouth county too but i feel like my accent is more general and less nj
This is more of a Hudson county accent. Seacaucus Jersey City Hoboken. You mostly get your accent from your parents. Not from where you're from also that's why everyone differs.
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That's boston/maryland lol
This tutorial showed how to "speak" like someone from New Jersey and how to "approach" someone with a NJ accent. But take it from a person who lives in NJ - just talk like a normal human and don't make yourself sound like a monotone duck with strep throat :)
Lol
I live in central Jersey, so there's a lot of cross over from New York, and Philly accents. Here, most people I know say "wooder" or "wadder" instead of water, "pellow" instead of pillow "san'wich" instead of sandwich and "Tren'en" instead of Trenton. There aren't many people who put that much emphasis on the 'a' sound in words. Those who do are usually middle age to older italians which aren't too common in this part of the state anymore.
Where in central Jersey are you, I live in Monmouth county on the shore and the stuff you describe is more like bennies than locals.
Close to Trenton, so literally in the middle of central Jersey.
Central jersey doesn't exist. Your North Jersey. Lakewood could be considered South Jersey. Trenton is North Jersey as well. You are the southern most county in North Jersey
Born and raised South Jersey, Gloucester County. I agree with the "wooder" way of pronouncing water for South Jersey. That is totally the way I speak. North Jersey is far different than South Jersey.
Thank you for posting this. This was very helpful. I didn't know the difference between a NY and NJ accent but now I do.
I've lived in jersey my entire life. This video is BS
YEAH! WHAT THEY SAID
JASE Productions I agree
JASE Productions as she said , nj is a big place. Just because you might not have this accent doesn't mean many people in jersey don't. I'm from north jersey and work at a bagel shop where 90% of customers come in and order cawfee with an accent much like this.
I know
JASE Productions ikr shes making a fool of herself
All the new jersey people in the comments getting defensive about her doing the accents is such a new jersey thing to do
+Shay Giannella hm. Where are you from now? I thought she hit it on point and I was born and raised in Jersey for about 9 years.:)
No it's because we do not say the words like this. Have you Ever been to jersey??
alexarose that's what I was thinking
Do you even live in New Jersey??? Also do you know how offensive it is to hear people imitating your states way of speaking when it's not even true? Have you ever heard of the 1 amendment? " freedom of speech, press, and the right to assemble peacefully. Writing in the comments is freedom of speech and that's not a New Jersey thing to do.
I just feel that however a person who was born and raised in that particular state, that's how that state should be said. And that's for country's, nations and continents! I mean that sounds agreeable, right?
I've lived all around Jersey my entire life, I have a few Aunts that do speak like this. It isn't always a location thing because I grew up in North Jersey & although a lot of us do use some "aw" sounds... It's not as dramatic as she is impersonating. I also feel like it may be a generational thing, because a lot of my much older relatives & family friends & my friend's older relatives tend to sound more like this. In my own opinion I feel like a lot of us sound different depending on what exit you're from & how far south or north you are in Jersey.
My mom is from a township in Bergen county, and that's pretty spot-on!!
Know one fact in New York we say " we going to the beach" in Jersey they say Im going to shore.Plus I like there women
Yup. You nailed it. My Bergen County family!
Nailed it.. Idont think I have a crazy accents being from central nj but I get called on all the common words all the time
I don’t know why I’m watching this. I was born and raised in North Jersey. I mean, I don’t talk like this, but I know a lot of people that do.
lmfao this reminded me of janice. OHHHHHHHHHH MOOOAAIII GAWWD
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I’m from north jersey. You nailed it!
Im from the county closest to NY (bergen) and honestly this was lowkey pretty acurate. Super exaggerated but lowkey super accurate
I visited Hudson County from Canada and I could hear, as you say, a low key version of this accent in some individuals. I think the high level of recent immigrants and internal US migration to the region means there is a wide variety of accents in the area.
I live in Hudson county in northern New Jersey and nobody talks like that unless you go like into central NJ.
You haven't been to downtown JC in the Italian village much bc the old timers have a way thicker accent than the woman in the footage. It depends in what part of JC you live in but if you are in a neighborhood of working class whites, particularly, the pre baby boomers, then you will notice the thick Hudson County accent, it's reminiscent of NYC' Al Smith.
I live in Central Jersey and there is no accent like this that I know of. It's mostly just New Yorkers who move down here.
Nelson Morales I live in Jersey City and most of the people I have heard talking like that come from New York
I lived in down town Jersey City all of my life and everyone here in the old Italian neighborhood spoke with thick accents and most of these people never lived in NYC. But you didn't grow up in the Italian village so you wouldn't know.
I live in Hudson County also and everyone speaks like that over here. I guess it's because I live in an Italian-Hispanic community that's blocks away from NYC
Truthfully, there’s even a difference from West to East northern NJ. Cawfee and dawg are still a thing here in northwest NJ, but I think because we are so close to the PA border, it’s not AS nasally. I hear more coming from the chest, especially when we’re tired or frustrated.
That's actually pretty sport on. I'm from bergen county. The thing with a jersey accent is that I could say coffee "normal" one time and then the next time say it cawfee.
you can tell that she was going to the new jersey accent sometimes accidentally
she sounds like lois from family guy when she does the marry hairy animal
sounds like lois from family guy lol
This sounds just like y’all idk what you’re talking about this was spot on
this is pretty good i live in essex county and its pretty close
My husband was raised in the same north jersey area as I was and our accents are totally different. He sounds like New York and I sound like like a softer version of the woman in the video.
I'm from nj and that is not how we sound!!
Jazmine Quispe ikr!
This is New York, I've been a New Yorker my whole life... parents, and grandparents from Queens.. great grand parents came from ireland... This is how we talk.... I say TAAAAWWWWWK...... Cawwwwww-feeeeeee...... for the word wash I say awwwwwshhh instead of oshhh
Yes it is, have you heard Danny devito
New Jersey Housewives do. LOL
That’s how Jersey city sounds 💀.
Just binge watch jersey shore, you’ll get it 😂
Some people on this thread are so bias it's pathetic. The video isn't suggesting every single person talks like this. It's telling you how to do a typical nj accent which does sound very similar to that. In addition to nyc boroughs, many of the same immigrant groups who started this accent came to northern nj cities like Newark Jersey City and Paterson and that's part of the reason it's also called an "nj accent" I grew up in northern nj and many people up here have some form of that accent whether they realize it or not. What most people in northern nj sound like is your typical suburban middle American accent, especially the younger generation. But those of you saying you've never heard anyone talk like this I'm sorry but if you live in Bergen Essex Union Hudson or Passaic and haven't heard this accent you must live under a rock.
Niko Christopoulos thank you
Niko Christopoulos skipped right over your comment lol
Some words I pronounce differently than people the way they talk.for example,I try pronounce a word,coffee but I sounded like I said " cawfee".I don't say ",wooder",I said "wadder" instead saying water.my sister's word pronounce "cot" instead of ",caught".
i’m from north/central jersey and i’ve never heard anyone talk like that😂
Yo do u have an insta?
Just broke down Adriana on the Sopranos.
I grew up in Essex County and this is actually quite good. Not a New Yorker, this sounds very authentic.
I was born and raised in Northertn NJ and never said "dawg" or "cawfee". lol
Sae
I always say cawfee and dawg. never knew I did that until I moved to FL and everyone pointed out my thick accent
Geez, lots of anger here. My mom grew up in Essex county and she and all of my aunts sound *exactly* like this. Yes, a lot of people in Jersey speak in a non-regional way, maybe most of us. That doesn't mean this accent she is teaching doesn't exist.
Yeah, I grew up in suburban central Jersey and I most people don't talk like this, but the ones who do REALLY do. I like how she nailed the subtle differences bw NY and NJ accents.
I used to live in New Jersey, and even though it's been years, my accent sometimes pokes through with certain words.
I'm from central jersey and I had to laugh because I didnt know I had an accent. I do say Florida just the way she describes. Now I know why everyone always corrects me when I say cauliflower...Cute.
Damn, I didn't even realize I did this stuff.
I lived in Northern NJ my whole life and the only thing she said that was true was the "aww" sound. Everything else is BS
Where in nj?
reilly Widmayer Essex county
seriously
+Mark Reilly I live in Essex to lmao
+Havasu -CallMe south amboy
Jerry Lewis (Of Blessed Memory) was born & raised in Newark, New Jersey. I heard him in an Interview about how he created the Character of Julius Kelp in "The Nutty Professor". He said that as a child, he was enthralld by Spencer Tracey in "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde". He pronounced "enthralled" as: ....... "entrawled" !
I’m from South Jersey, we tend to feel as if we’re a separate state
where do all of you people live in NJ? Im from NNJ and this woman is spot on and sounds like every single person i know.
"cawwwfee" - yep, that checks out.
I just picture Tony Soprano. “ It’s a very difficult situaaaation “
We saw "aw" for anything ending in 'all' like bawl mawl etc even cawfee, I say. Water, I say wattah...anything in "er" makes an "ah" sound. Unless you're Italian-American (white), you might have the nasal-y speech but generally it's not like that. #bornandraised
Now that I'm consciously saying it, it is a double "dd" when there's "tt" but subtle.
I lived in New Jersey for 13 years and never once actually met somebody with the accent
This is pretty accurate! I like how you mentioned that it is a softer accent...and also, how they do keep the final "r" sound at the end of the word. Nobody (except people who live in NYC - Brooklyn, Queens, S.I.) drops the "r" - this includes Long Island and New Jersey. This is a huge misconception! However, we definitely ALL stress the "aw" sound in our words - no matter where in NY/NY you are from. The nasal quality reminds me more of Queens than anything, and is more ethnic than anything.
Hudson County, NJ drops the "r."
I’m from Elizabeth New Jersey (Northern) and never meet someone who speaks like this. Honestly, when you hear someone like this, it’s someone from New York who moved to New Jersey.
New Jersey aka Italian American accent
I'm from North Jersey and someone from out of state commented that I don't sound like I'm from Jersey bc I don't sound anything like the people from all of those stereotypical jersey movies/shows..I said "Thank you!"
I live in north New Jersey and we sound nothing like that
same here DISKLIKE VIDEO
ikr
can't speak for everybody, cuz i do sound like this and i didn't notice it til highschool, i was born and raised in the jersey city,met people out of state, and it was proven to me. and all in all a jersey accent isn't that horrible o.o i cant see why it seems so offense to so many people.
Mistress Betsy if you sound like this than you are just illiterate!! Get an education okay!! Don't go through life slow and stupid :)
+Betsy Herrera JC once upon a time. Graduated Snyder 1960. What HS did you go to?
I'm from north jersey right by newark, for the most part she on point, when I heard the 'animal' thing she was but new york has a different accent then ours but then again almost everyone has different accents
I have lived in northern Nj my whole life and no one sounds like that.
Only the Italians in Jersey spoke like that. She sounds like she walked outta the sopranos lmao
Ok guys I’m going against the crowd right now, I’ve been to New Jersey and this is very (from my experience) accurate. I’m not sure why this is “inaccurate” but whatever
I've only come across that accent from people in NY
from nj and i dont sound like this
me too
Black people up north don't sound like this
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I’m from north NJ and the only accent part I have that she mentioned was the “aw” sounds. Other than that, I believe not everyone spoke almost like a New Yorker.
I am from northern NJ and all of this is wronh
I probably just can’t hear it but I’ve lived in nj my whole life and I have no accent but I want one and idk why I wouldn’t have one I live outside of the city with parents that have accents too
Same
I think you've got your accents mixed up. You sound like Leah Remini, who's from Brooklyn, not New Jersey.
I live in nj ❤
We don't actually sound like that. Whatever accent we did have in North Jersey will be lost soon anyways since we have more and more people moving in that cant afford to live in Manhattan.
John Jacob ikr we don’t sound like this
Things this lady missed (coming from a Jersey girl with a father born and raised in Jersey City):
1. Something - “sum-thin”
2. Idea - “i-dear”
3. I don’t say “marry” like that - I say “M-AIR-y”, and it’s no different than saying “Mary”. However, “merry” is like saying “M-ER-y,”
4. To me, it’s really more about the slang. “Jughandle”, “Benny”, etc. ESPECIALLY “jughandle”, because you gonna be hearing that a lot if you ask directions. So, you better know what a jughandle is.
5. I don’t say “Florida” the way she does. I say, “FLOOR-da.”
6. It all depends on what part of Jersey you’re from. Like if you’re from south Jersey, you’re not gonna be talking like this. To me, they sound like they’re from the southern states only not as strong. If you’re from Trenton, you gonna be sounding more like you’re from PA. If you’re from north Jersey, you MIGHT sound like this person in the video. MIGHT. But if you’re from Jersey City or Newark, you’re gonna be sounding like you’re from Brooklyn or NYC, but not as nasally or sing-songy. If you’re from mid Jersey, your voice is very basic, but you don’t go around saying “coffee” like “CAAHH-FEE”. Only your “c-awww-feee” is softer than that from someone from say Jersey City.
7. We drop a lot of “G’s” at the end of the verb sentences. Like up here, where say, “if you’re from Trenton, you’re gonna be sounding like…”, if I said that in person, it would sound like: “If you from Trenton, you gonna be sounding’ like you from Pennsylvan-i-yahr or sum-thin.” 🤪 My dad’s from Jersey City, so that’s why I “tawk” like that. Force of habit or something. Example:
“I’m not doin’ that.”
8. We kind of blend our words. Like here in Jersey, instead of, “Hey. How are you doing?”, we say, “Hey! How-you-doin’?” But that’s more Jersey City. Lol
9. I rarely hear anyone here say “doesn’t.” We say “don’t” a lot. Like “This dress doesn’t fit me.” would be “This dress don’t fit me.” “Any” is replaced a lot with “no.” Example: “I don’t have any money.” is “I don’t have no money.” Or if you wanna go all out Jersey City: “I don’t got no money.” My go-to is “I don’t have no….Blah Blah Blah.”
I honestly don’t think we have accents. I mean, I guess to some we do. Like if guess you’re from Alabama or something, we have accents? But then again, I’m so used to hearing how we talk, it really don’t dawn on me. 😅
Howcast should be renamed to HowCrap. I live in New Jersey, and more specifically North Jersey. You can't get anymore north than where I live. This woman has NO clue what she's talking about. When I saw this video and heard her "make a 'New Jersey' accent", I'm like what's up with these duck sounds???
Nobody in my area speaks in the monotone duck quack this Howcast woman is making. In fact, she said she's from Florida? Wow... Who would've guessed considering her normal "accent" was just everyone else in northern New Jersey.
ThunderBow YES! I live in Northern NJ too and I totally agree with you
she s spot on
don't think she's actually ever met someone from north jersey...
For the most, she got it correct. However, Hudson County, NJ is very similar to NYC in that it does drop the "r" off the end of words. Mother becomes Mothah. Father becomes Fathah. Car becomes cah. Four becomes fouh.
If you want to have a jersey accent just copy Enzo amore
How you doin.
how you doing
Anime 24/7 KW that's new yorker accent..only people from Jersey and new York know that it's a new yorker accent
Articulation disorders also known as functional phonological disorders, are commonly known as difficulty with producing specific sounds, deleting sounds, or substituting one sound for another.
With the help of a speech therapist, this can be remediated
no one talks like this In new Jersey 😂
Rikhembe Thomas exactly
I'm from Florida but my step dad is from Rhode Island and I've lived with him for about 5-6 years and I recently noticed a change in my voice. For instance I used to say "coffee" as in cah-fee but now I say cwo-fee. And "walk" for me was wah-k but now I say "woh-k"
This is not what we sound like lol
As a resident of new jersey, i can confirm that most of us do not talk like this.