Guys, we DO speak like this. You guys probably are talking to people who either just moved to the East Coast or are the first generations to grow up there. I'm from Flatbush Gardens in Brooklyn and I'm telling you, everybody in my neighborhood talks like this. Some accents might be thicker than others but trust me, Amy hits the accent on the money.
Profesional Fangirl I LOVE that when I see comments like that. "I'm from Canada and no one talks like that." Oh really, so you've met everyone is Canada and can personally attest that NO ONE sounds like that?? Lol
@@kenshinphd Sounds a little bit like the Bronx too. And yess the italians 40 50 years agoo. Check out the actress Kathrine Narducci who plays in A Bronx Tale or the Sopranos.
To all the people complaining: Yes the way she sounds in this video is exaggerated and maybe the majority of New Yorkers don't sound THIS strong, however 1. some people DO sound this strong (one of my NY friends sounds exactly like this) 2. properly learning how to do an accent involves learning the most exaggerated way first (learning every characteristic of the NY accent- the full range, thoroughly), practicing it over and over until one can do it without thinking about it, then they can soften the accent to sound more natural and casual once they become more familiar and comfortable with it. But you have to start at the basics. And this video shows you the basics, it's not meant to address every nuance of every New York speaker.
Karen L. I would also add 3. She's an actress, and in drama and theater, exaggerated accents are much clearer for the audience to accurately pick up where a character is from. Instead of realism, exaggerated accents can give a character's background without verbally stating it.
To everyone saying this doesn't sound NY, it DOES. Lol, this accent exists in Staten Island and the southern parts of Brooklyn (Coney Island, Seaside, and etc). This is the original NY accent from the 1900's and forth.
Not only does she have the accent down to a T, but she's got the mannerisms as well. I'm VERY impressed. I've never heard anyone sound so much like a native (except a friend of mine from TX , but that's besides the point). She truly sounds like a native.
I’m trying out for theatre in high school and the monologue is like a 1940’s New Yorker vibe and every time I try to do a New Yorker accent it turns into a British accent.😂
ik this comment is from a year ago but i literally have the same problem. luckily there’s a month until the show but learning lines and trying to nail the accent at the same time is so hard😭
Same 😂 I’m in a murder mystery and my character is a stereotypical dumb blonde New Yorker with a thick New York accent, and my accent has come out southern, British, literally everything but New York lol
I'm from staten island and this doesn't really sound like a si accent, its more like a older general ny accent 1950-60s. plus a nj accent and a SI accent don't really sound much alike.
I'm from texas, this accent in girls is my favorite accent of all. I have to talk to a lot of repair companies all over the country, and when I see NY on the location, I'm like "please sound like her please sound like her", and when she does, it's the highlight of my week lol. It just sounds so cool, it sounds like "shit's about to get done", and it usually does with them
this honestly helps. I've been making calls to New York for a couple days now for my job. Making sure they partially believe I'm from New York even though I'm in California
Lol I live in the south now and I be trynna fit In so bad with their accent but just can’t like they can always call it out too … like I was taking to my science teacher and she was like “are you from here because you sound like you’re from up north”
This is a legitimate New York City accent, though it is specific to a group that no longer dominates the outer boroughs of New York the way it once did.The sound Amy Walker produces here is the stereotypical accent that people recognize from TV shows and movies, particularly those produced in the latter part of the last century. I heard it with great regularity growing up in Brooklyn in the mid 1960s through the late 1970s. However, I did not hear it so much in my own East Brooklyn neighborhood, where the majority of the residents were either directly from or descendants of the American deep south and the Caribbean. The dialects and languages that these people spoke were influenced by those origins and, over a couple of generations, had a profound effect on what many might consider to be the classic New York City accent.
Interesting how in general, American accents are going away. It's starting to become a case of southern vs northern. I'm from Maine, and my girlfriend is from Michigan. There are some subtle differences, but not as many as there are between her parents and my grandparents.
I love Amy so much! She is definitely my favorite TH-camr. Just a disclaimer though: I was born and raised here in Manhattan. All my friends are New Yorkers and my father is from here as well. I can honestly say I have never heard this accent anywhere.
She's doing a Long Island/Queens very nasal accent. Brooklyn accents are not nasal and most times are portrayed incorrectly in movies I grew up in Queens, went to Broadcasters school after college to neutralize my accent...worked in Manhattan for years, no one from Manhattan sounds like her. Staten Island and Brooklyn sounds alike because SI was settled by people who moved there from Brooklyn. The Long Island accent sounds like Queens because people from Queens moved there in the 50's and 60s and continue to move to LI even now. (I moved to LI 15 yrs ago from Queens). I slip into a Queens accent sometimes depending on whom Im talking to. Not everyone has the heavy, nasal accent that shes using....its been diluted as kids go away to college and as people move from other states to NY.
I feel like the people saying that "no one talks like this! I'm from NY and I would know!" are right to an extent; the accent can be more subtle, but it's definitely THERE. Take this from a foreigner who's been to all boroughs of NY multiple times. You may not even notice it yourself because it's so subtle, but for me, I can tell easily because it's different, and she's nailing it, to an exaggerated extent. It's like how some Indians like me speak with less of an accent, but I can almost always tell if English isn't a first language for an Indian just by the way they say their 'r's.
This is hilarious! Today this accent if perfected by an actress such as this one is only good for TV sitcoms that make fun of the New York accent. They don't all the sound same either - Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island, Queens, New Jersey (Jersey City, Newark, Hoboken). And she is really doing what is considered an old fashioned and campy silly NY accent. Some more accurate NY accents heard in sitcoms where the actors are from those areas and spoke that way naturally included Valerie Harper 'Rhoda', Nancy McKeon as Jo from The Facts of Life, Tony Danza, Danny Devito in Taxi, Jason Alexander from Seinfeld, Fran Drescher from The Nanny and Leah Remini. This accent heard here is over the top and meant for comedy only.
so cool. i love how your accents instantly transport you to a different time and place and you fully immerse yourself in a frame of mind. kinda like playing dressup as a kid LOL! awesome talent.
I'm surprised and confused by New Yorkers who don't recognize this accent. It is ultra-real to me. She's fantastic. I grew up in Brooklyn and Queens in the 50s and 60s among Jews and Italian-Americans and I recognize it completely. I recognize the visuals of her mouth moving! I still know lots of people who talk like this. Maybe it is a question of decades and generations.
Lmao xD **face palm** New Yorkers are so butthurt! "I'm from NY, we don't sound like that".. Of course you don't, you guys lost your accent with every generation! My grandmother sounds like this, she passed it down and I pushed myself to learn. Disgraceful all of yoos!
I love you Amy! I'm from Baltimore City and I've been told (and I just did the New York Times Dialect Test) I have kind of a New York accent or maybe a General Northeastern accent (is there such a thing specifically as a General Northeastern?). The NYT test nailed it exactly and concluded I was either from Yonkers, Newark, or Baltimore.
A lot of people from NYC usually say "New Yawk" and "tawk instead of talk, but what you're doing is a deep Italian-American, Brooklyn, New Yawk accent. People who grow up around them do kinda speak like them. There is also a blue collar Jewish-American, NYC accent (see Mike Meyers' Yenta charachter on SNL). People from Manhattan usually don't sound like that. It's more of a blue collar accent. People who visit upstate and rural NY will be disappointed if they expect people to speak like that. In rural NY speak more like Southerners (Country accent). African-Americans in NYC sound nothing like that. Puerto Ricans have their own accent. A perfect example is the show "Friends" where the only person with that accent is the Italian-American character named Joey. I watched a show where a lady was breaking down the different accents in NY and she did a great job as she broke down the different accents by borough and ethnicity.
Well, she's doing the most exaggerated NYC accent, naturally. And that's gonna be a working class Italian-American Brooklyn accent which is pretty close to a NYc Jewish accent.
The New York accent is not italian. Italian and Jewish people picked up this accent, it doesn't sound italian at all. It doesn have some influence, but the accent was developed in New York and has close ties to british accents in the 19th century.
Thank you! Born and raised in Ny not saying there aren’t people who talk like this, but it’s very isolated areas…. Long Island has it’s own accent, Manhattan… and so on
I love the emotion she put behind her words In this accent. I've never been so attracted to an accent before. Made it a little hard to follow 😅 but this video is great! I've always wanted to pretend I had a different accent and apparently New York accent is the easiest one for me to practice!
Listen everyone says they don't talk like this I'm from Brooklyn I do now i live in Cali still got it. Anyways it depends were you come from in New York not the city has many accents not all talk like this but if you go to my city Brooklyn in m neighborhood we gotta strong accent like this so yes it depends on what part on New York your at. By the way nicely done on the video.
That is a Brooklyn movie accent. Not a New York accent. There are many New York accents. Staten Island, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, and Upstate NY. Also, there is no particular Manhattan accent.
New York State has a lot of regional accents. Mostly what we share is our approach to the letter "a." It's not accurate though to just do Queens and Brooklyn accents and call them "the New York Accent." Doesn't even accommodate the diversity of the city let alone the state
The A you use if it's in the beginning of a word is not really correct here. If you say the word ta(y)n, fa(y)n, fa(y)mily etc...it's correct..however if you say apple..the a is a straight up short a...rather than aypple or ayccent, ayctor. I notice in a lot of movies, actors will make that mistake when trying to inflect a NY accent.
Not sure if you’ll ever read this or know what I’m talking about😅, but there’s a podcast called the thrilling adventure hour, in which Padgett Brewster does a show as a character called Sadie Doyle. I’m trying to pin down her accent. If anyone does know what I’m talking about HELLLPPP
That's a Queens accent, A midtown Manhattan accent is NO Accent at all (No borough is identifiable). Manhattan accent is also known as a Mid Atlantic accent. I know because I am a New Yorker.
What part of Queens are you referring to because I'm from New York too and I can't think of an area in Queens where they talk like this, but I do know some Brooklyn and Manhattan native who talk like this.
I don't wanna be an internet troll or anything, but based on the image she was painting of New York with the sights, smells, etc. I get the impression that she's never been to the city
mickyyluvsyou I just looked on her Wikipedia page, and it says that Amy Walker has been featured on the Today Show... which is located in New York. Please don't prejudge people before you know them. Maybe she has to do this imaging session to remember what it was like.
How long do you practice an accent before you start learning another one? It's easy to get all those sounds mixed up. I would love to be able to hear an accent and copy it with no problem. It's not that easy for me unfortunately.
people saying "i live in this place or that place and we dont sound like that here" Yeah because its 2017 and the accents she imitates are from the 19th and 20th century America when people didnt move around so much and regional dialects were a thing
I reside in NYC and do not find this accent very fascinating as many people from around the world do. Maybe it's because I'm desensitized to hearing it, or just because it sounds too ghetto/urban for my taste. I have a neutral accent btw. Anyways, It's always a pleasure to watch your videos Amy! Keep up the good VIBES!
Ghetto? This is not a "ghetto" accent, whatever that means. Many Italian or Jewish New Yorkers once spoke this way; some still do. And I bet your accent isn't as neutral as you think...:p
I love Amy so much! She is definitely my favorite TH-camr. Just a disclaimer though: I grew up in Manhattan and currently live in Brooklyn. All my friends are New Yorkers and my father is from here as well. I can honestly say I have never heard this accent anywhere.
+billyblackattacks hahaha.....Kramer's one line in the Woody Allen movie....remember George parking cars and running into Jerry's apt. all flustered with the 50 million key ring hanging off his belt.....total "basket case."
I am a native New Yorker who now lives in Georgia...although there are many NY dialects, I truly miss home and enjoy watching the King of Queens, Honeymooners, Looney Tunes, and All in the Family. These shows and others remind me of home and there's just no other place like it!
New Yorker here. She sounds crazy native. I’m impressed
much agreed.
@@tmalone2530 cwofe
@me embrace it.
Yahh... but she says You's once and bam NJ
It sounds a lot like American Italian ?!
Whether you're from NY or not, I always found the NY accent to be the most pleasing.
Guys, we DO speak like this. You guys probably are talking to people who either just moved to the East Coast or are the first generations to grow up there. I'm from Flatbush Gardens in Brooklyn and I'm telling you, everybody in my neighborhood talks like this. Some accents might be thicker than others but trust me, Amy hits the accent on the money.
Profesional Fangirl I LOVE that when I see comments like that. "I'm from Canada and no one talks like that." Oh really, so you've met everyone is Canada and can personally attest that NO ONE sounds like that?? Lol
I'm from Brooklyn too but I have to disagree because this is more for New Jersey and Staten Island accent. Just saying it as it is
@@kenshinphd completely agree. Grew up in brooklyn, only heard this kind of accent on staten islanders... mainly like... the Italians.
Your from Flatbush Gardens lol you mean Vanderveer?
@@kenshinphd Sounds a little bit like the Bronx too. And yess the italians 40 50 years agoo. Check out the actress Kathrine Narducci who plays in A Bronx Tale or the Sopranos.
To all the people complaining:
Yes the way she sounds in this video is exaggerated and maybe the majority of New Yorkers don't sound THIS strong, however
1. some people DO sound this strong (one of my NY friends sounds exactly like this)
2. properly learning how to do an accent involves learning the most exaggerated way first (learning every characteristic of the NY accent- the full range, thoroughly), practicing it over and over until one can do it without thinking about it, then they can soften the accent to sound more natural and casual once they become more familiar and comfortable with it. But you have to start at the basics. And this video shows you the basics, it's not meant to address every nuance of every New York speaker.
Karen L. I would also add 3. She's an actress, and in drama and theater, exaggerated accents are much clearer for the audience to accurately pick up where a character is from. Instead of realism, exaggerated accents can give a character's background without verbally stating it.
The older New Yorkers generation do sound like this.
Yes, definitely many older people do sound like this. But plenty of younger people too.
This doesn't sound strong
@@Fierra2000 True, Its not even that strong.
I'm Scottish and I'm trying to do this accent but keep on sounding Australian😂
Katie Cleland lol, how?
+Kat Cleland I'm English, and same.
Haha I'm Australian and when I try I get a Scottish accent!!
Omg same 😂
Im a New Yorker living in Brooklyn NY and I have a heavy Italian NY Brooklyn accent.
Trying this in a British accent means you're going to sound Australian whatever you do.
Georgia Smith Sooooooooooooooooooo right!
what do you mean?
True lol
Trying if ur Aussie gives u a scottish/canadian accent
+Georgia Smith so true!
im already aussie so its natural XD
To everyone saying this doesn't sound NY, it DOES. Lol, this accent exists in Staten Island and the southern parts of Brooklyn (Coney Island, Seaside, and etc). This is the original NY accent from the 1900's and forth.
Yup.
Almost perfect. Being a native New Yorker, it's apparent that she's not a native. However, it's a friggin' 95/100. Excellent job!
How do I sound more native
You sound like Estelle from friends
I WAS LEGIT GONNA COMMENT THE SAME THING
Joey, its Estelle.
She needs more rasp on her voice to sound like her.
I was thinking the same thing the second I heard the accent
I was thinking Janice but yeah Estelle too!
Not only does she have the accent down to a T, but she's got the mannerisms as well. I'm VERY impressed. I've never heard anyone sound so much like a native (except a friend of mine from TX , but that's besides the point). She truly sounds like a native.
I work in construction and every guy has a NY accent
omg sounds like Janice
Too bad she doesn't have the laugh lol
Or Estelle
y o u
l a h v e
m e i
c h a a n d l a w r
b i y n g
Ooahw maayy Gwooaaahhhd
She sounds like Seinfeld mother. Her accent is basically a mesh of Jewish and Italian.
I’m trying out for theatre in high school and the monologue is like a 1940’s New Yorker vibe and every time I try to do a New Yorker accent it turns into a British accent.😂
ik this comment is from a year ago but i literally have the same problem. luckily there’s a month until the show but learning lines and trying to nail the accent at the same time is so hard😭
@@jaidaphillips7217 same I got a role in a play, and she unexpectedly told me to have a New York accent, but it sounds British haha
Same 😂 I’m in a murder mystery and my character is a stereotypical dumb blonde New Yorker with a thick New York accent, and my accent has come out southern, British, literally everything but New York lol
The way I sound either sounds Southern or British lol
This is a modern accent, not one from the 40.
Your approach to accents is fantastic,
Most people like Southern accents but I'm one of the few people who loves the New York accent.
Noah Julius Lol
Nobody loves southern accents . Boston and NY have been at the top foreva now.
@@studioeproductioncompany1494 lmao this foo said sourthern, howdy partner
She really is super talented. I just sit and listen. The level of detail is amazing.
She sounds like Naomi from Wolf of Wall Street
Which isn't a bad thing
+Kai Roberts I think she sounds like Adriana from The Sopranos!
+Mees I think she sounds like Carmela.
she sounds like harley quinn from suicide squad which is the same actress
I thought Naomi was Australian.
Not bad at all 😍
Amy, you are amazing.
This is more of a Staten Island /north jersey accent
agreed.. doesn't sound queens/brooklyn to me.
Oh yes indeed it is ... trust me (karen from Brooklyn and Queens, born 1954)
I'm from staten island and this doesn't really sound like a si accent, its more like a older general ny accent 1950-60s. plus a nj accent and a SI accent don't really sound much alike.
NOT north jersey. Only ny transplants in jersey. This is Staten Island/Queens.
Promise you nobody from north jersey sounds like this
I'm from texas, this accent in girls is my favorite accent of all. I have to talk to a lot of repair companies all over the country, and when I see NY on the location, I'm like "please sound like her please sound like her", and when she does, it's the highlight of my week lol. It just sounds so cool, it sounds like "shit's about to get done", and it usually does with them
this honestly helps. I've been making calls to New York for a couple days now for my job. Making sure they partially believe I'm from New York even though I'm in California
Lol I live in the south now and I be trynna fit In so bad with their accent but just can’t like they can always call it out too … like I was taking to my science teacher and she was like “are you from here because you sound like you’re from up north”
I’m in the musical Newsies (Morris Delancey), and this video saved my life!
This is a legitimate New York City accent, though it is specific to a group that no longer dominates the outer boroughs of New York the way it once did.The sound Amy Walker produces here is the stereotypical accent that people recognize from TV shows and movies, particularly those produced in the latter part of the last century. I heard it with great regularity growing up in Brooklyn in the mid 1960s through the late 1970s. However, I did not hear it so much in my own East Brooklyn neighborhood, where the majority of the residents were either directly from or descendants of the American deep south and the Caribbean. The dialects and languages that these people spoke were influenced by those origins and, over a couple of generations, had a profound effect on what many might consider to be the classic New York City accent.
we gotta get it back
When she said "what do you smell" I instantly said GARBAGE 😂
OOOOH my God, it's Chandler Bing lol
joelbeavermusic Closer to Janice. She's more from Queens, though.
Hahahahha
joelbeavermusic hahahahaha!!! OH MY GOD!!! It’s Janice 😂😝
Lol whenever I hear the New York accent, I just think of Morello and her family from OITNB
Yes!! She's such a cutie 😍
Interesting how in general, American accents are going away. It's starting to become a case of southern vs northern. I'm from Maine, and my girlfriend is from Michigan. There are some subtle differences, but not as many as there are between her parents and my grandparents.
So basically you gotta go through a meditation session before talking
Guilherme C. Always stay in character. Dustin Hoffman did in Midnight Cowboy.
Or you can just smoke a joint.
Pretty much
I love Amy so much! She is definitely my favorite TH-camr. Just a disclaimer though: I was born and raised here in Manhattan. All my friends are New Yorkers and my father is from here as well. I can honestly say I have never heard this accent anywhere.
She's doing a Long Island/Queens very nasal accent. Brooklyn accents are not nasal and most times are portrayed incorrectly in movies I grew up in Queens, went to Broadcasters school after college to neutralize my accent...worked in Manhattan for years, no one from Manhattan sounds like her. Staten Island and Brooklyn sounds alike because SI was settled by people who moved there from Brooklyn. The Long Island accent sounds like Queens because people from Queens moved there in the 50's and 60s and continue to move to LI even now. (I moved to LI 15 yrs ago from Queens). I slip into a Queens accent sometimes depending on whom Im talking to. Not everyone has the heavy, nasal accent that shes using....its been diluted as kids go away to college and as people move from other states to NY.
2:07 What's up with new yorkers and walls? They seem to go along very well.
lorna morello
Hi you did amazing! I live I New York, Long Island and this is perfect
nicki minaj sounds like this.
Is she from new York?
@@youtubechannel-uz9sh ya i think she from new york
@@jalalnabila5140 ok
Thor The God Of Thunder, Hoes, and Beer that’s where she is originally from but she was raised in Queens, New York
Thor The God Of Thunder, Hoes, and Beer She left Trinidad when she was only 5, making her basically from New York
I just wanted to know if Harley Quinn was from New York her voice I mean
The smell that reminds me of visits to NYC would be that of bus exhaust.
you know who does a good New York accent Marisa Tomei from My Cousin Vinny now that was spot-on
because she was born and raised in Brooklyn.
YOU GONNA SHOOT A DEEEAH ??
That's what she sounds like. I'm from long Island and I work in brooklyn. It's not wrong, but it does sound a little exaggerated.
This and newsies have been my ways of learning a New York accents
I really want to do this because it will help me with my HARLEY IMPRESSION!!!!! 😃😃
Right on some things. I hear Irish/Jewish/old New York Dutch (particularly the "oi" sound for o), not so much Italian, black or hispanic.
I feel like the people saying that "no one talks like this! I'm from NY and I would know!" are right to an extent; the accent can be more subtle, but it's definitely THERE. Take this from a foreigner who's been to all boroughs of NY multiple times. You may not even notice it yourself because it's so subtle, but for me, I can tell easily because it's different, and she's nailing it, to an exaggerated extent. It's like how some Indians like me speak with less of an accent, but I can almost always tell if English isn't a first language for an Indian just by the way they say their 'r's.
I’m from England Manchester to be exact and I’m over here trying to tawlk like her 😂 she’s fantastic I could listen to her awwl day
I'm Italian, I love New York City and I'm trying to learn its accent but it's so hard coz I've always been thought to use the British standard one.
and some people mistakenly think the New York accent is Italian LOL.
im a bonafide new yorker and she absolutely nailed it!
This is hilarious! Today this accent if perfected by an actress such as this one is only good for TV sitcoms that make fun of the New York accent. They don't all the sound same either - Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island, Queens, New Jersey (Jersey City, Newark, Hoboken). And she is really doing what is considered an old fashioned and campy silly NY accent. Some more accurate NY accents heard in sitcoms where the actors are from those areas and spoke that way naturally included Valerie Harper 'Rhoda', Nancy McKeon as Jo from The Facts of Life, Tony Danza, Danny Devito in Taxi, Jason Alexander from Seinfeld, Fran Drescher from The Nanny and Leah Remini. This accent heard here is over the top and meant for comedy only.
A have a friend whos accent is sorta like this at times lol
love the sparkle in your eye and the bandwidth of your energy and vibration
You should do a Boston accent. I think it might be one of my favorites lol
Basten
“A tree bolted to the ground” haha great vid
so cool. i love how your accents instantly transport you to a different time and place and you fully immerse yourself in a frame of mind. kinda like playing dressup as a kid LOL! awesome talent.
Holy crap, you have improved so much since I watched your last video. Instant sub!
LOVE your energy: "maybe like a tree BOLTED to the ground" well done. kudos to you. peace.
I'm surprised and confused by New Yorkers who don't recognize this accent. It is ultra-real to me. She's fantastic. I grew up in Brooklyn and Queens in the 50s and 60s among Jews and Italian-Americans and I recognize it completely. I recognize the visuals of her mouth moving! I still know lots of people who talk like this. Maybe it is a question of decades and generations.
Lmao xD **face palm** New Yorkers are so butthurt! "I'm from NY, we don't sound like that".. Of course you don't, you guys lost your accent with every generation! My grandmother sounds like this, she passed it down and I pushed myself to learn. Disgraceful all of yoos!
“rawr xD”
This is a time capsule "Lmao xD *face palm*"
I'm playing Miss Hannigan in Annie right now and that was so helpful! Thank you so much.
Woah I came to this video because I have auditions for my school show Annie next Monday
She sounds like she a from nyc! I grew up in brooklyn
I wish I could master the New Yorker or jersey accent. I'd like to be able to do a great joe Pesci impression
Amy, I melt with your New York Accent and your mannerisms serious
Did you say gowoogal it??? Priceless. I thought it was Gowoogal it Awalreddy.
I love you Amy! I'm from Baltimore City and I've been told (and I just did the New York Times Dialect Test) I have kind of a New York accent or maybe a General Northeastern accent (is there such a thing specifically as a General Northeastern?). The NYT test nailed it exactly and concluded I was either from Yonkers, Newark, or Baltimore.
A lot of people from NYC usually say "New Yawk" and "tawk instead of talk, but what you're doing is a deep Italian-American, Brooklyn, New Yawk accent. People who grow up around them do kinda speak like them. There is also a blue collar Jewish-American, NYC accent (see Mike Meyers' Yenta charachter on SNL). People from Manhattan usually don't sound like that. It's more of a blue collar accent.
People who visit upstate and rural NY will be disappointed if they expect people to speak like that. In rural NY speak more like Southerners (Country accent). African-Americans in NYC sound nothing like that. Puerto Ricans have their own accent. A perfect example is the show "Friends" where the only person with that accent is the Italian-American character named Joey.
I watched a show where a lady was breaking down the different accents in NY and she did a great job as she broke down the different accents by borough and ethnicity.
Well, she's doing the most exaggerated NYC accent, naturally. And that's gonna be a working class Italian-American Brooklyn accent which is pretty close to a NYc Jewish accent.
The New York accent is not italian. Italian and Jewish people picked up this accent, it doesn't sound italian at all. It doesn have some influence, but the accent was developed in New York and has close ties to british accents in the 19th century.
Thank you! Born and raised in Ny not saying there aren’t people who talk like this, but it’s very isolated areas…. Long Island has it’s own accent, Manhattan… and so on
I love the emotion she put behind her words In this accent. I've never been so attracted to an accent before. Made it a little hard to follow 😅 but this video is great! I've always wanted to pretend I had a different accent and apparently New York accent is the easiest one for me to practice!
Listen everyone says they don't talk like this I'm from Brooklyn I do now i live in Cali still got it. Anyways it depends were you come from in New York not the city has many accents not all talk like this but if you go to my city Brooklyn in m neighborhood we gotta strong accent like this so yes it depends on what part on New York your at. By the way nicely done on the video.
i find this accent super attractive and i have no idea why
Sameeee
That is a Brooklyn movie accent. Not a New York accent. There are many New York accents. Staten Island, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, and Upstate NY. Also, there is no particular Manhattan accent.
New York State has a lot of regional accents. Mostly what we share is our approach to the letter "a." It's not accurate though to just do Queens and Brooklyn accents and call them "the New York Accent." Doesn't even accommodate the diversity of the city let alone the state
Do you know of any tips for a cuban accent? I would really love to be able to do one because it can be played on so many different levels.
The A you use if it's in the beginning of a word is not really correct here. If you say the word ta(y)n, fa(y)n, fa(y)mily etc...it's correct..however if you say apple..the a is a straight up short a...rather than aypple or ayccent, ayctor. I notice in a lot of movies, actors will make that mistake when trying to inflect a NY accent.
Not sure if you’ll ever read this or know what I’m talking about😅, but there’s a podcast called the thrilling adventure hour, in which Padgett Brewster does a show as a character called Sadie Doyle. I’m trying to pin down her accent. If anyone does know what I’m talking about HELLLPPP
You can tell this accent is from New York and Chicago we have our own I've been told this
I was born In New York thanks moved to Pennsylvania when I was like 2 after hurricane Sandy..
Do the different long island accents nassau county and riverhead which kind of sounds like not ny at all more like midwest
That's a Queens accent, A midtown Manhattan accent is NO Accent at all (No borough is identifiable). Manhattan accent is also known as a Mid Atlantic accent. I know because I am a New Yorker.
A Queens accent? It isn't! The accent is more Brooklyn.
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No, I was born in new york
What part of Queens are you referring to because I'm from New York too and I can't think of an area in Queens where they talk like this, but I do know some Brooklyn and Manhattan native who talk like this.
Meagan Carr
Jamaica, NOW Leave me the fuck alone.
Meagan Carr not even in Jamaica, I live there and I know no one with this accent.
I don't wanna be an internet troll or anything, but based on the image she was painting of New York with the sights, smells, etc. I get the impression that she's never been to the city
mickyyluvsyou I just looked on her Wikipedia page, and it says that Amy Walker has been featured on the Today Show... which is located in New York.
Please don't prejudge people before you know them. Maybe she has to do this imaging session to remember what it was like.
so beautiful and decisive
How long do you practice an accent before you start learning another one? It's easy to get all those sounds mixed up. I would love to be able to hear an accent and copy it with no problem. It's not that easy for me unfortunately.
NYC my entire life... 37 so far. You sound AMAZING! Its giving Barbara Streisand
people saying "i live in this place or that place and we dont sound like that here" Yeah because its 2017 and the accents she imitates are from the 19th and 20th century America when people didnt move around so much and regional dialects were a thing
That really helped me a lot. Thank you! I luv new York accents.
I reside in NYC and do not find this accent very fascinating as many people from around the world do. Maybe it's because I'm desensitized to hearing it, or just because it sounds too ghetto/urban for my taste. I have a neutral accent btw.
Anyways, It's always a pleasure to watch your videos Amy! Keep up the good VIBES!
Ghetto? This is not a "ghetto" accent, whatever that means. Many Italian or Jewish New Yorkers once spoke this way; some still do. And I bet your accent isn't as neutral as you think...:p
Stop this classist trash talk. This accent is great.
I love Amy so much! She is definitely my favorite TH-camr. Just a disclaimer though: I grew up in Manhattan and currently live in Brooklyn. All my friends are New Yorkers and my father is from here as well. I can honestly say I have never heard this accent anywhere.
IT SMELLS LIKE PRETZELS. LIKE NEW YORK SIDEWALK CART STYLE GRUBBY PRETZELS THAT ACTUALLY TASTE REALLY GOOD.
I freaking love New York pretzels!😛
these pretzels are making me thirsty!
+billyblackattacks hahaha.....Kramer's one line in the Woody Allen movie....remember George parking cars and running into Jerry's apt. all flustered with the 50 million key ring hanging off his belt.....total "basket case."
How do you pronounce words like "forest" , "Florida", "orange" or "Boston"?
I am a native New Yorker who now lives in Georgia...although there are many NY dialects, I truly miss home and enjoy watching the King of Queens, Honeymooners, Looney Tunes, and All in the Family. These shows and others remind me of home and there's just no other place like it!
You´re a very talented young lady.
Brilliant.
i live in mumbai but does new york really smell that bad? i mean it sounded like mumbai
could you do an Australian tutorial
It's such a sexy accent.
Great. Like the musical approach to deconstructing the accent. Cadence, rhythm, it's all in there
This is really helping me for my Guys and Dolls adelaide audition xx
Awesome tips! I love it!
From Jersey. Wow Amy, you're good.
I love the way she talks
Phenomenal.
This sounds more like a Brooklyn accent to me. Not generally a "New Yorker" accent. All the boroughs have different accents.
I have to speak like new york person for Newsies musical
Did you teach Margo Robbie?
She's got some Long Island in there too. Sounds just like my cousins.
4:00 4:00 4:05 I thought that I couldn't see your tongue because my eyes were still closed imagining I was in ny
people from the tv serie jersey shore sound like this kind of.. but maybe im wrong im not american
Sounds very NJ / Staten Island (NYC). Not so much Long Island or the rest of the city but still good.
A lot of long islanders sound like this lol
@@eddiew2325 south shore or closer to the city maybe? 🤔
@@lizzy__brock a lot of Italians in Suffolk
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