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  • @dollarchange2917
    @dollarchange2917 5 років тому +1471

    New Yorker here. She sounds crazy native. I’m impressed

  • @marcosnunez5873
    @marcosnunez5873 8 років тому +1002

    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.

    • @cori4727
      @cori4727 6 років тому +21

      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
      @kenshinphd 5 років тому +14

      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

    • @JessicaEve
      @JessicaEve 5 років тому +10

      @@kenshinphd completely agree. Grew up in brooklyn, only heard this kind of accent on staten islanders... mainly like... the Italians.

    • @TheYoli182
      @TheYoli182 5 років тому +2

      Your from Flatbush Gardens lol you mean Vanderveer?

    • @Ghiani16
      @Ghiani16 5 років тому +3

      @@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.

  • @isetmfriendsofire
    @isetmfriendsofire 5 років тому +345

    Whether you're from NY or not, I always found the NY accent to be the most pleasing.

  • @karenl.595
    @karenl.595 8 років тому +627

    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.

    • @TheGeneralJos
      @TheGeneralJos 7 років тому +38

      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.

    • @yusufgta4341
      @yusufgta4341 7 років тому +15

      The older New Yorkers generation do sound like this.

    • @nspector
      @nspector 6 років тому +9

      Yes, definitely many older people do sound like this. But plenty of younger people too.

    • @Fierra2000
      @Fierra2000 5 років тому +2

      This doesn't sound strong

    • @greenmachine5600
      @greenmachine5600 2 роки тому

      @@Fierra2000 True, Its not even that strong.

  • @georgiasmith7144
    @georgiasmith7144 9 років тому +1344

    Trying this in a British accent means you're going to sound Australian whatever you do.

  • @stephaniegonzalezpantaleon8790
    @stephaniegonzalezpantaleon8790 9 років тому +245

    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.

  • @katiecleland4019
    @katiecleland4019 9 років тому +605

    I'm Scottish and I'm trying to do this accent but keep on sounding Australian😂

    • @ub3rfr3nzy94
      @ub3rfr3nzy94 9 років тому

      Katie Cleland lol, how?

    • @PoissonVisageStudios
      @PoissonVisageStudios 9 років тому +7

      +Kat Cleland I'm English, and same.

    • @awesomeamazing5752
      @awesomeamazing5752 9 років тому +28

      Haha I'm Australian and when I try I get a Scottish accent!!

    • @darraghakhtar7680
      @darraghakhtar7680 8 років тому

      Omg same 😂

    • @yusufgta4341
      @yusufgta4341 7 років тому +6

      Im a New Yorker living in Brooklyn NY and I have a heavy Italian NY Brooklyn accent.

  • @genebigs1749
    @genebigs1749 7 років тому +149

    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!

    • @riana3444
      @riana3444 2 роки тому +1

      How do I sound more native

  • @tmalone2530
    @tmalone2530 3 роки тому +35

    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.

    • @eddiew2325
      @eddiew2325 3 роки тому

      I work in construction and every guy has a NY accent

  • @jaaniaraj
    @jaaniaraj 8 років тому +169

    omg sounds like Janice

    • @vanessabarron8197
      @vanessabarron8197 8 років тому +5

      Too bad she doesn't have the laugh lol

    • @amber-lousawyer2509
      @amber-lousawyer2509 4 роки тому +3

      Or Estelle

    • @thisleftylefty
      @thisleftylefty 4 роки тому +5

      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

    • @frummel403
      @frummel403 3 роки тому +5

      Ooahw maayy Gwooaaahhhd

    • @SL-pg4dh
      @SL-pg4dh 3 роки тому +1

      She sounds like Seinfeld mother. Her accent is basically a mesh of Jewish and Italian.

  • @breezaal6197
    @breezaal6197 8 років тому +280

    You sound like Estelle from friends

    • @aminathliu
      @aminathliu 6 років тому +8

      I WAS LEGIT GONNA COMMENT THE SAME THING

    • @f.b.i8809
      @f.b.i8809 6 років тому +20

      Joey, its Estelle.

    • @Chris_Goodrum
      @Chris_Goodrum 4 роки тому +2

      She needs more rasp on her voice to sound like her.
      I was thinking the same thing the second I heard the accent

    • @wendywheeler2651
      @wendywheeler2651 3 роки тому

      I was thinking Janice but yeah Estelle too!

  • @presleyxd4404
    @presleyxd4404 4 роки тому +76

    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.😂

    • @Sombra030
      @Sombra030 3 роки тому +1

      Omfg same

    • @jaidaphillips7217
      @jaidaphillips7217 2 роки тому +5

      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😭

    • @iheartabbyleemiller7165
      @iheartabbyleemiller7165 2 роки тому +3

      @@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

    • @stillcryingovermusicalswby6750
      @stillcryingovermusicalswby6750 2 роки тому +4

      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

    • @daydream5120
      @daydream5120 2 роки тому

      The way I sound either sounds Southern or British lol

  • @noahjulius5062
    @noahjulius5062 5 років тому +49

    Most people like Southern accents but I'm one of the few people who loves the New York accent.

    • @studioeproductioncompany1494
      @studioeproductioncompany1494 4 роки тому +6

      Noah Julius Lol
      Nobody loves southern accents . Boston and NY have been at the top foreva now.

    • @worldcreation2028
      @worldcreation2028 3 роки тому +3

      @@studioeproductioncompany1494 lmao this foo said sourthern, howdy partner

  • @user-rw8ik2zo5y
    @user-rw8ik2zo5y 8 років тому +319

    She sounds like Naomi from Wolf of Wall Street
    Which isn't a bad thing

    • @MeesTW
      @MeesTW 8 років тому +8

      +Kai Roberts I think she sounds like Adriana from The Sopranos!

    • @kostarossides5062
      @kostarossides5062 8 років тому

      +Mees I think she sounds like Carmela.

    • @notpebbles310
      @notpebbles310 8 років тому +11

      she sounds like harley quinn from suicide squad which is the same actress

    • @hittingtax2670
      @hittingtax2670 6 років тому

      I thought Naomi was Australian.

    • @gabiocampos
      @gabiocampos 6 років тому

      Not bad at all 😍

  • @mshara1
    @mshara1 10 років тому +65

    Your approach to accents is fantastic,

  • @xxGLhrMxx
    @xxGLhrMxx 10 років тому +63

    So basically you gotta go through a meditation session before talking

    • @1TrueJuliet
      @1TrueJuliet 9 років тому +1

      Guilherme C. Always stay in character. Dustin Hoffman did in Midnight Cowboy.

    • @Composify
      @Composify 3 роки тому +1

      Or you can just smoke a joint.

    • @TheChanelcupcake
      @TheChanelcupcake 2 роки тому

      Pretty much

  • @joelbeavermusic
    @joelbeavermusic 9 років тому +107

    OOOOH my God, it's Chandler Bing lol

    • @1TrueJuliet
      @1TrueJuliet 9 років тому +6

      joelbeavermusic Closer to Janice. She's more from Queens, though.

    • @nataliemarie4325
      @nataliemarie4325 6 років тому

      Hahahahha

    • @rowanthomas9181
      @rowanthomas9181 4 роки тому +1

      joelbeavermusic hahahahaha!!! OH MY GOD!!! It’s Janice 😂😝

  • @JuanCarabajal
    @JuanCarabajal 4 роки тому +30

    When she said "what do you smell" I instantly said GARBAGE 😂

  • @haroldmcneil5785
    @haroldmcneil5785 7 років тому +16

    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.

  • @PauloNideck
    @PauloNideck 10 років тому +90

    Amy, you are amazing.

  • @mashiela7189
    @mashiela7189 9 років тому +135

    nicki minaj sounds like this.

    • @youtubechannel-uz9sh
      @youtubechannel-uz9sh 5 років тому +6

      Is she from new York?

    • @jalalnabila5140
      @jalalnabila5140 5 років тому +1

      @@youtubechannel-uz9sh ya i think she from new york

    • @youtubechannel-uz9sh
      @youtubechannel-uz9sh 5 років тому +1

      @@jalalnabila5140 ok

    • @uwu-fm2kj
      @uwu-fm2kj 4 роки тому +9

      Thor The God Of Thunder, Hoes, and Beer that’s where she is originally from but she was raised in Queens, New York

    • @benwyatt7619
      @benwyatt7619 4 роки тому +4

      Thor The God Of Thunder, Hoes, and Beer She left Trinidad when she was only 5, making her basically from New York

  • @caliharris898
    @caliharris898 4 роки тому +10

    I’m in the musical Newsies (Morris Delancey), and this video saved my life!

  • @spiderjerusalem4152
    @spiderjerusalem4152 3 роки тому +10

    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

  • @zisira2469
    @zisira2469 10 років тому +115

    This is more of a Staten Island /north jersey accent

    • @tam260
      @tam260 10 років тому +19

      agreed.. doesn't sound queens/brooklyn to me.

    • @kbermann
      @kbermann 7 років тому +2

      Oh yes indeed it is ... trust me (karen from Brooklyn and Queens, born 1954)

    • @todaywithjerdin
      @todaywithjerdin 7 років тому +3

      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.

    • @couldntthinkofagoodnamesoi8357
      @couldntthinkofagoodnamesoi8357 6 років тому +7

      NOT north jersey. Only ny transplants in jersey. This is Staten Island/Queens.

    • @OdinsHallsBrazilianJiuJitsu
      @OdinsHallsBrazilianJiuJitsu 6 років тому +1

      Promise you nobody from north jersey sounds like this

  • @cireziapri
    @cireziapri 8 років тому +37

    lorna morello

  • @TheDistantman
    @TheDistantman 5 років тому +14

    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

    • @n1vrze_
      @n1vrze_ Рік тому +2

      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”

  • @Oliver-ub4gc
    @Oliver-ub4gc 5 років тому +13

    Lol whenever I hear the New York accent, I just think of Morello and her family from OITNB

  • @JammesNova
    @JammesNova 9 місяців тому +2

    im a bonafide new yorker and she absolutely nailed it!

  • @theculturedbumpkin
    @theculturedbumpkin 6 років тому +8

    “A tree bolted to the ground” haha great vid

  • @rileyford1481
    @rileyford1481 9 років тому +9

    Hi you did amazing! I live I New York, Long Island and this is perfect

  • @tostevelee
    @tostevelee 10 місяців тому +2

    She really is super talented. I just sit and listen. The level of detail is amazing.

  • @isetmfriendsofire
    @isetmfriendsofire 5 років тому +17

    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.

  • @bonvoyagekippieable
    @bonvoyagekippieable 8 років тому +34

    you know who does a good New York accent Marisa Tomei from My Cousin Vinny now that was spot-on

    • @pierrefonseca3122
      @pierrefonseca3122 7 років тому +3

      because she was born and raised in Brooklyn.

    • @rogerswindell7537
      @rogerswindell7537 4 роки тому +1

      YOU GONNA SHOOT A DEEEAH ??

    • @wesleyneilsen7671
      @wesleyneilsen7671 3 роки тому

      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.

  • @kbermann
    @kbermann 7 років тому +4

    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.

  • @volfmccarnivor1721
    @volfmccarnivor1721 9 років тому +8

    LOVE your energy: "maybe like a tree BOLTED to the ground" well done. kudos to you. peace.

  • @polkzoo
    @polkzoo 5 років тому

    love the sparkle in your eye and the bandwidth of your energy and vibration

  • @mais.4982
    @mais.4982 6 років тому +6

    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.

  • @ivanl.marinogilsanz7161
    @ivanl.marinogilsanz7161 10 років тому +2

    Holy crap, you have improved so much since I watched your last video. Instant sub!

  • @lucyheartfilia2092
    @lucyheartfilia2092 9 років тому +3

    That really helped me a lot. Thank you! I luv new York accents.

  • @DarrenAltmanvo
    @DarrenAltmanvo 6 років тому

    Fantastic work, you have a great ear. Love it!

  • @gigistarlight
    @gigistarlight 8 років тому +11

    I love Amy so much! She is definitely my favorite UA-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.

    • @JTRocks4Ever
      @JTRocks4Ever 3 роки тому

      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.

  • @GirlsNDragons
    @GirlsNDragons 9 років тому +123

    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!

    • @Forsnoblown
      @Forsnoblown 4 роки тому +9

      “rawr xD”

    • @_niroke_
      @_niroke_ 3 роки тому +6

      This is a time capsule "Lmao xD *face palm*"

  • @danielmcintyre
    @danielmcintyre 8 років тому

    you're such an amazing actress. you crack me up!

  • @jellyacc
    @jellyacc 10 років тому +3

    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.

  • @HumbertoMoura
    @HumbertoMoura 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome tips! I love it!

  • @courtneyc9423
    @courtneyc9423 9 років тому +25

    I'm a New Yorker, born and raised Long Islander. This is, in no way, a New Yorker accent. Like another comment said, this is a Hollywood New York accent. This isn't even close to a New York accent.

    • @anthonycunningham8531
      @anthonycunningham8531 9 років тому +2

      Courtney C Show us how its done, son.

    • @mckennalayla
      @mckennalayla 9 років тому +7

      I think this video is more directed towards actors for plays and stuff.

    • @awesomeamazing5752
      @awesomeamazing5752 9 років тому +2

      It's more south NY and Brooklyn accent

    • @IggynEnzo
      @IggynEnzo 7 років тому +1

      it's so bad

  • @CaptainRyMM
    @CaptainRyMM 6 років тому +12

    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!

  • @lucazade6787
    @lucazade6787 10 років тому +7

    It's such a sexy accent.

  • @andysos1234
    @andysos1234 10 років тому

    love this video, great job at explaining

  • @rickjames7483
    @rickjames7483 8 років тому +13

    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.

    • @nspector
      @nspector 7 років тому

      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.

    • @greenmachine5600
      @greenmachine5600 2 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @Rohaneh24
      @Rohaneh24 Рік тому

      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

  • @pvpsaandopefresh
    @pvpsaandopefresh 8 років тому

    Awesome! Really helps with my lines on my script!

  • @kiracortorreal7150
    @kiracortorreal7150 10 років тому +6

    This is how my aunt sounds! Lol!

  • @rileyanne8513
    @rileyanne8513 8 років тому +2

    I'm playing Miss Hannigan in Annie right now and that was so helpful! Thank you so much.

    • @Shayla.r
      @Shayla.r Рік тому

      Woah I came to this video because I have auditions for my school show Annie next Monday

  • @theoracle5265
    @theoracle5265 Рік тому

    Amy, I melt with your New York Accent and your mannerisms serious

  • @mrExcellent101
    @mrExcellent101 8 років тому +4

    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.

  • @dominickeefe2454
    @dominickeefe2454 3 роки тому

    Great. Like the musical approach to deconstructing the accent. Cadence, rhythm, it's all in there

  • @Wardloverable
    @Wardloverable 10 років тому +20

    You should do a Boston accent. I think it might be one of my favorites lol

  • @shanthegamer21
    @shanthegamer21 4 роки тому +5

    So much cultural nostalgia. :,)

  • @jallennial
    @jallennial 4 роки тому +2

    i find this accent super attractive and i have no idea why

  • @theoracle5265
    @theoracle5265 3 роки тому

    You are awesome I absolutely love your accent !

  • @AChagoyen
    @AChagoyen 6 років тому +3

    She sounds like she a from nyc! I grew up in brooklyn

  • @mickyyluvsyou
    @mickyyluvsyou 10 років тому +5

    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

    • @1TrueJuliet
      @1TrueJuliet 9 років тому

      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.

  • @timothygermann780
    @timothygermann780 9 років тому +80

    I have lived in NJ & NY my entire life and I've never heard anyone talk like this ever. This is a hollywood NY accent. She sounds like a character from the Sopranos. And the Sopranos is completely fake too.

    • @derekdu7250
      @derekdu7250 9 років тому +4

      jenna marbles.

    • @Dave-cq1sl
      @Dave-cq1sl 9 років тому +21

      No trust there's still people that speak like this, but not as much as there used to be tho, its beginning to fade out, but they're still around i grew up in the hoods of NYC so i can confirm that people still talk like this.

    • @peaveystrat
      @peaveystrat 9 років тому

      THE SOPRANOS IS FAKE? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

    • @XinBiDe
      @XinBiDe 9 років тому +6

      Timothy Germann You're right that this is the Hollywood NY accent, but to be fair, that's probably what a lot of people studying accents (stage and film actors) are required to learn.

    • @MNC-78
      @MNC-78 9 років тому +1

      Timothy Germann trust she sounds exactly like Adriana

  • @melissalevine7353
    @melissalevine7353 8 років тому +20

    IT SMELLS LIKE PRETZELS. LIKE NEW YORK SIDEWALK CART STYLE GRUBBY PRETZELS THAT ACTUALLY TASTE REALLY GOOD.

    • @jenquin2740
      @jenquin2740 8 років тому +2

      I freaking love New York pretzels!😛

    • @billyblackattacks
      @billyblackattacks 8 років тому +3

      these pretzels are making me thirsty!

    • @jnwd1723
      @jnwd1723 6 років тому

      +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."

  • @ivelinivanov1310
    @ivelinivanov1310 3 роки тому +1

    I had a feeling as if U was watching Lois Griffin all this time... AWSOME ACKENT

  • @barryschwarz
    @barryschwarz 5 років тому

    One artist to another - I'm here because I'm playing various of the adult males in West Side Story. The 2 Polack cops, mostly. You sound like an archetype of the accent (not caricature - the base form that distinguishes it from every other). I think you're very helpful. Thanks. "Vibe" - yes, after the technical, the psychoemotional - the cultural. Love it.
    Seeing a few comments saying they sound Australian trying this accent. Well, I'm Australian, so this should be interesting...

  • @katia9348
    @katia9348 Рік тому +1

    new yorker here, i had to laugh when you said first thing you smell is garbage. LMAO i've always said this.

  • @francescaplourde5395
    @francescaplourde5395 8 років тому

    hey hey i friggn love you! (in my new york accent) that was awesome! your brilliant!

  • @Gitohandro
    @Gitohandro 8 років тому +27

    I feel as if I'm going to be hustled 0.0

  • @Charmand3r1108
    @Charmand3r1108 5 років тому

    This is really helping me for my Guys and Dolls adelaide audition xx

  • @laurensm8972
    @laurensm8972 5 років тому +1

    This is brilliant!

  • @cleander97
    @cleander97 5 років тому +2

    Mr. De Niro would have corrected you saying hey, I’m walking hee!!

  • @selectedshipper8282
    @selectedshipper8282 3 роки тому +2

    This and newsies have been my ways of learning a New York accents

  • @InfamousRafe
    @InfamousRafe 8 років тому +1

    so beautiful and decisive

  • @cozbaldwin937
    @cozbaldwin937 10 років тому +5

    Ack! Volume is so low! I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but not even your exceptional vibes are making my speakers hum loud enough to hear.

  • @dollarchange2917
    @dollarchange2917 5 років тому +10

    That’s a straight up Queens accent. 👏 well done Amy

  • @swiftie_rep_1389
    @swiftie_rep_1389 7 місяців тому

    I’m trying to learn one because I’m in the show Newsies. This video helped so much

  • @user-tm1rf6lv2f
    @user-tm1rf6lv2f 10 років тому

    Great tips!

  • @iamsunnysideup7115
    @iamsunnysideup7115 3 роки тому

    Hilarious! I'm from Chicago, and I have to go watch if she did a Chicago accent, lol. Great job! New sub :)

  • @nadiaborzacchini6858
    @nadiaborzacchini6858 8 років тому +3

    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.

  • @acgsmith5937
    @acgsmith5937 7 місяців тому +1

    The smell that reminds me of visits to NYC would be that of bus exhaust.

  • @alejpix
    @alejpix 9 років тому

    Hey! Excellent tip:)) Thx!

  • @mymovievideos
    @mymovievideos 9 років тому

    This is perfect!

  • @TraceysTouch
    @TraceysTouch 9 років тому +1

    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!

  • @J0SIE4EVA
    @J0SIE4EVA 10 років тому +1

    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.

  • @asddfasdqwe7389
    @asddfasdqwe7389 6 років тому +1

    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

  • @blitzbarbie47
    @blitzbarbie47 7 років тому +1

    I really want to do this because it will help me with my HARLEY IMPRESSION!!!!! 😃😃

  • @johngriller4997
    @johngriller4997 10 років тому +15

    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!

    • @nspector
      @nspector 7 років тому +16

      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

    • @greenmachine5600
      @greenmachine5600 2 роки тому +6

      Stop this classist trash talk. This accent is great.

  • @leonloic744
    @leonloic744 7 років тому

    Hey, Im an English teacher from France. I love your videos and tips. But I love you even muaaah ! ;)

  • @aaronsmith1023
    @aaronsmith1023 4 роки тому +2

    I'd love to hear her do a Baltimorean accent😍

  • @josephmclaughlin9865
    @josephmclaughlin9865 Рік тому

    From Jersey. Wow Amy, you're good.

  • @rorysmith9382
    @rorysmith9382 8 років тому +2

    My theories on accents
    Rory Smith
    The New York Accent
    To me it sounds like a Dutch accent. New York used to be a Dutch colony and was called New Amsterdam. My theory is the New York accent sounds like a Dutch American accent. I realised this when listening to a Dutch man talking in English he sounds like a New Yorker.
    The Liverpool accent
    My view is that this accent is derived from the Viking accent. Remember when Jan Molby came over to play for Liverpool from Denmark. Then within 6 months he sounded like a scouser. In my view this is because the Liverpool accent is derived from Wirral vikings who were expelled from Ireland in 1000 years ago. They left a Viking accent in Liverpool.
    The British Upper Class accent.
    I think this is derived from the Norman French accent. The French accent sounds like the British Upper Class accent. The Normans took over England in 1066, and their elites accent dominated England for hundreds of years. This accent then spread across Scotland, and Wales after the union. So now British upper class people talk in Frenchified accent. I decided this when I was listening to the radio in another room, and thought I heard a French man talking I walked through to find a upper class man had been talking.
    The USA accent
    I think this is from Ulster Scots accent. Huge number of Scots emigrated to Northern Ireland then emigrated to the American colonies, in my view resulting in the America accent.
    The Geordie accent
    I think this is a half way house accent between the Scottish accent and the Yorkshire accent.
    The Australian Accent
    To me this sounds like a London accent. There must have been lots of people moving from London in the original days of the colonies.
    That is my view.

    • @JTRocks4Ever
      @JTRocks4Ever 3 роки тому

      The New York accent is heavily influenced by the lower east side accent...occupied by the Irish and the Jewish way back. Then it became influenced by German and Italian....however, the typical heavy Queens/Long Island accent that she is doing is heavily influenced by the Jewish people who moved from the lower east side to Queens and Long Island. The Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island accents were more influenced by Italians and Puerto Ricans...especially the Puerto Ricans who started emigrating in the 1950s.
      The British upper class accent was developed during the Industrial Revolution to distinguish the nouveau riche from their humble beginnings. During the Revolutionary War, Americans and British all sounded pretty much alike with what was then a non-rotic American accent. The new posh British accent became rhotic, that is they sounded all the r's and t's unlike Americans who drop r's and make t's sound like d's (glottal). That new British accent is what became the Received Pronunciation we know today.

    • @JTRocks4Ever
      @JTRocks4Ever 3 роки тому

      The Australian accent originated from the cockneys that were transported there as criminals once the US won independence from England and stopped them from transporting criminals here. Over the years the Australian accent has changed to include influences from the languages of peoples from other countries that immigrated there, so that now Australian English is distinct from other forms of English with their own slang and idioms.

  • @dirtholetribune3313
    @dirtholetribune3313 7 років тому +2

    I love this so much ❤️ love ❤️

  • @ShesMajickal_
    @ShesMajickal_ 2 роки тому

    NYC my entire life... 37 so far. You sound AMAZING! Its giving Barbara Streisand

  • @indigogolf3051
    @indigogolf3051 6 років тому +1

    Did you say gowoogal it??? Priceless. I thought it was Gowoogal it Awalreddy.

  • @sarahselina2155
    @sarahselina2155 Рік тому +1

    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

  • @Spartan-mz8fo
    @Spartan-mz8fo 2 роки тому

    I love the way she talks

  • @AliaAir
    @AliaAir 2 роки тому

    Amazing video

  • @anarchist_parable
    @anarchist_parable 4 роки тому +2

    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

  • @schannstewart9385
    @schannstewart9385 2 роки тому +1

    Love that I found you. Im a voice actor