The accents of the 5 boroughs of NYC -- a how to by a native -- the real deal!
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- A tongue-in-cheek demo of New York City's varied accents by each borough: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Manhattan. I explain not only how to make the sounds but more importantly, the psychological reason behind them - sorta : ). Voiced my me, a NYC native - this is the real deal folks!
Ratings appreciated.
p.s. I know it s/b "you're" not "your" & that the map of Brooklyn is too small (on the left) but it was too late to fix.
I did not attempt African American/Latino accents as I can't do them justice. Thanks for watching.
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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
After 11 years this video is still the best NY accent video out there
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
as a Bronx native, she did us right lol
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! :)
Janice? Is that you :O
LOL! i LOVE This comment.
janice who
from friends
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!
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.
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
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!!!!
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.
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 * 😂😂😂😂
On. Point. Made me smile. Anyone who gets offended or “corrects” this video needs to go find their sense of humor. I ❤️ NY
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.
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.
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
Completely accurate.....if youre an older jewish woman
Hahahahha
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 love how you mimic the accents! Sounds so real!!
This vids is genuinely nice, truly fun to watch.
Omfg that queens accent slayed me alive I can’t breathe even I’m dying over here. 😂
Oh my gosh I lAUGHED SO HARD. I AM FRO,M MANHATTAN AND THIS WAS JUST GREAT, REALLY SPECIFIC TO EACH BORO. THANK YOU!
This is one of my favorite videos on UA-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!!
I love it! I always wondered about the different accents around New York City. Blows my mind to have such variety in one city!
"There's a pain living in Queens, cause it's so boring" hahahaha!!
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.
Its always these 2 minute clips from 10 years ago that make you happy
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!!!
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.
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.
OMG! This is so right on point, it is absolutely hilarious. Truly, one of the funniest things I've ever seen on UA-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.
Loved this. My daughter wanted to know what a New York accent sounded like and your videos was 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.
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
When these accents are gone, this video will be playing on loop at a museum
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.
lol the queens one sounds like george costanza's mom
..who was from queens
Don't come back unless you bring me grand children!!
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 this video so much so, that gotta watch it every now and then!
I'm crying!! This was so on point and funny! Hahahahaha wish it was longer.
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!
this sounds more like if you're doing cartoon characters rather than normal people accent
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
Well done!!!! Lived in NY for 30 years and I think you nailed it!
I got a kick out of this, but puleeez...Queens is NOT boring!
Brooklyn is sing song. It is. LOL. You sounded like every single one of my elderly female Jewish and Italian neighbors growing up. haha.
This is absolutely first rate!!! I am almost 80 years old, born and raised in NYC and this vid is the best !!!
This was a wonderful, quick synopsis of the New York City accent. I never thought of breaking it down by Burroughs.
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.
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
lol the most adorable video ever. I'd love to see the face that goes with that adorable voice.
And the drum-shot after the joke was just so...cute.
I love your voice in natural state, as you were introducing the video. Sounds so calming and friendly. You should do cartoon voices (if you don't do it already)
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. :)
Representing Flushing Queens in the hoooouuuussse!
Freakin love the narration and the savage comments are hilarious.
I love this video! Vigwig, I say "Thank youuuuuuu!" I hope you don't mind, but I use your accents in everyday conversation. I'm from L.A. so I don't get to hear this "music" everyday! I love it! Thanks again :)
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!!!
lol, the Manhattan one reminds me of a friend.
and manhattan kids still talk like this -- busy city
Amazingly funny and educational. Love it!
love this! I'm an English teacher in japan and I show this to my students all the time!
Wonderful! You have a great ear, this is fantastic. Thanks
I’m from the capital region and I sound like the Manhattan one..
I always come back to this video to make myself laugh.
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.
The 2nd one sound like Lorna Morello on OITNB
She does, by her own admission, a hybrid of Brooklyn and Boston.
Brooklyn's accent sounds like Danny Devito's wife-Rhea Pearlman :D
Love it! Born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens - I can vouch for it, ya know?
OMG that was funny - AND - educational! (spot on) proving once again that learning is life long and need not be dull and tedious.
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.
Queens- Fran Drescher and Edith Bunker.
lmao I love ur commentary on bronx and Manhattan
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.
Lmao I found that joke about Staten Island so funny due to the fact that I live in Jersey lmaoooo omg.
`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.
Wow, that's awesome! I'm obsessed with accents and this is new knowledge to me. Nice video, thanx
omgoodness this was awesome gonna watch it again and laugh as it was the first time. helpful fir somebody that is going to ny to live this week
I'm from flushing queens and i do not speak like that 😂😂😂the Manhattan one was accurate tho
This was most fascinating to an English girl like me 😐
its actually unsettling how accurate the staten island 1 is. it gave me chills
I love it. Vig is funny. The very rushed Manhattan accent is hilarious.
Brooklyn at 0:40 sounds exactly like the mom on Matilda the movie.
Thank you much appreciated. I'm a retired opera singer/actor.
this is the best accent video Ive seen on here!!!
Loved everything about this
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.
I am a Staten Islander born and raised. Absolutely loved this video . . . fugeddaboutit!
Whewwww made my skin crawl with some of the high pitch ones.
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.
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
Thanks for posting this!
This is great! Haha! I'm from MD but live in Broonlyn now and had a brief conversation with my neighbor whose accent I thought was from the Bronx. Turns out I was right.
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.
This was funny
So I have to write a short story for my class soon, and I want the characters to be from Staten Island, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Is there anywhere I can learn more about those specific parts (that's not just basic info from Wikipedia).
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.