I've been living in Connecticut for 40 years but my Brooklyn accent is still inside me. You can take the girl out of Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn out of the girl.
Manchester Wine it is slowly dying out. Not quite as fast as the Non Rhotic southern accent, but if you take a trip out on the south shore of Long Island you'll pretty much be surrounded by it.
I’ve noticed that it tends to be older generations (40s and older) who still sound like this; younger people tend to have more of a standard American accent. I have heard younger people speak with prominent NY accents, but it doesn’t seem to be as common.
So true that this is dying out. I don’t really talk like this, but my family did/does. Must have passed away. But my aunt and cousins still sound like this. I grew up with this accent and it’s like being bilingual. It’s like my second (or maybe first) language. I feel like I lost some of my identity when I moved to CT back in 1972. I’ve noticed that my every day speaking voice now has more “Brooklyn” in it. I think I have been hiding my true accent for a long tone to fit in. Now I’ve embraced it!!
Most people under 40 don't have much of an accent and that's true everywhere. Where I live in Alabama, most 20-somethings could pass for California. Sad to see. I like to hear just about any accent.
LMAO ! Love that ! Thanks for posting ! Coming from west Texas, ANY accent that tends to de-emphasize "R's" fascinates me. Southerners use extra "R's" One of my favorite NY accent words is "coffee" (cooufie)
The fact I'm from Brooklyn and Canarsie blows my mind. Even within Brooklyn and just New York in general. We all have accents. I don't sound like you but it's still very much Brooklyn. lol it's amazing. I love it.
Love this accent, just had to come listen to some of it :) In a novel I'm working on, I had one underling of the antagonists repeatedly refer to them as "Bossman", and now I can't hear her voice as anything else but Brooklyn accent when I read it back :P
It's amazing i starterd laughing as soon as you said I'm 43!!!! lmao But your CT accent just came off like a relaxed Brooklyn girl not over elongated words like we normally do
I'm from New Haven Connecticut, and I honestly hate my accent sometimes cuz I have a weird switch from CT accent to NY accent from all the time I spent in both and it's so funny to see how people treat me when I'm speaking with one or the other.
Don't hate your accent! When I'm in Brooklyn people comment that I have a CT accent. My real accent is CT plus a hint of Brooklyn. I use the CT accent to sound smart! But the Brooklyn accent is more fun and more me. Don't hate your accent. Just be yourself. It's cool to speak with a combo of both.
Brooklyn Mama aww thanks, I live in England now because that's where my family is and everyone jokes around about how my CT accent sounds weird cuz I'm from inner city New Haven haha but I'll start being proud of it. Thank you!
love it,i'm from oregon and live in texas! people ask me if i'm from the east coast,i say no from oregon,, lately i find myself saying you all,lol,,you do not look 43 in video,30's!! sometimes i wish i was in my 40's again or 30's take that too,,thanks for sharing very cute video,love the hair!
I am Ca-NAY-dian being a goof with my own daughter and “put on” a New “Yohk” accent, particularly the word “tired”. I said to her that it sounded mostly “like Brooklyn” and searched here straight over to you. This is cute and such a treasure as the little guy who made this would be 22 (!) now? Anyway, I do wish you’d said “ti-ahed” in your talk but I love it. Now I need to actually take her to Brooklyn!
Hi! What a nice comment! Yes, I wish you could hear how I say “tired.” It’s more like “tiyud.” My son was 10 when he filmed this and now he is 20 in college studying to be a doctor and pianist. I have 3 other kids as well, 18, 17 and 15. I will always miss my old neighborhood in Canarsie, Brooklyn. That neighborhood from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s doesn’t exist anymore. I’m sure the new 2023 neighborhood is great too.
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I live in southern Louisiana and I had the pleasure of speaking with a lovely woman from New Jersey; she asked where I was from I said New Orleans she said she was surprised that it sounded like I was from New York.
Ahhh man, I love that Brooklyn accent, and I aint even from America. I could imagine its not that common anymore. I wark an I tawk um frum brooklyn nu yawk, lol
this is exactly how my relatives sound. very strong brooklyn accent, my grandparents and their siblings grew up together in the same neighborhood. if anyone is wondering how there are multiple different new york accents, its divided between Italian, Irish, and German immigrant populations. Brooklyn is influenced by Irish, and while there are still pockets of Irish immigrant neighborhoods in new york, theyre starting to be taken down and people are moving away. the more "stereotypical" new york accent is influenced by Italian, which has been the case since The Godfather released.
@@meriharary I was there for a few years in the mid-90s. When was your family there? I was born in da Bronx, then moved to Bruhklyn, then Monsey, now Joisey.
Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Da Bronx accents are unfortunately starting to disappear with the influx of Foreigners into the Boroughs…Being Italian from L.I. With Roots in Brooklyn meant something special with family reunions. Listening to my Uncles & Cousins Tawk was like being Cradled in a Big Loaf of Bread dipped in Sunday Sauce…The Accents, Food, Music & Culture are quickly Passing Away like ALL of my Uncles, Aunts, Parents and Cousins…. Moving to South Florida seemed to have Ripped the tastebuds out of my Mouth and the ears from my Head…. When people say, “The World is One Big Melting Pot”…I Cringe and say, “I Liked it More when it was a Salad of Different Taste”…. J-E-T-S !!!!!
I agree. It’s a dying accent. Older people had it, like people born in NY before 1960/70. I’m copying the way my older relatives spoke who have all passed away. Great comment. Thank you.
I grew up in Brooklyn's run down Bush Terminal section in the 1950's/60's. All thru grammar, junior, and high schools they painstakingly tried to teach us proper annunciation and NOT to have an accent so we could go anywhere and not be pegged as a Brooklynite. I've been away since 1987 and still get comments. Ain't no accent like Brooklynese, fuhgeddaboudit.
Random but it’s easier to transition into an accent like a Brooklyn one, rather than the Connecticut one, from my English accent because they don’t have that American R pronunciation.
Hang out with Meri and me and we'll have you become the expert in the now dead Brooklyn accent. You will get all the subtleties you need so you won't sound like a 1940s gangster!
Good question... there are variations of this accent. This one is a little exaggerated and old fashioned (although my family spoke like this). I have a Canarsie video where I speak in a less exaggerated accent. Long Island and “the Nanny,” who is from Queens, have a less song-song quality perhaps, and are not as strong. Fran Drescher does not speak like the “Nanny” in real life. My family, on the other hand spoke just like this. They grew up in Brooklyn in the the 1930s-50s. It’s an old-fashioned accent for sure.
@@meriharary NYC accents will always be popular. Old episodes of Seinfeld are still being shown on TV and many old and new entertainers are from NYC. Joy Behar is very popular on The View and she's originally from Brooklyn.
meri harary could you teach me a brooklyn accent its awesomest more realistic accent i know some people in new york are losing a brooklyn accent you are so lucky you have it permently losing a accent is sad you can teach a lot of people how to do a accent to bring back thair dialect 😢😢
Please talk like that all the time, I heard this accent is dying out. Keep it alive.
Manchester Wine it is slowly dying out. Not quite as fast as the Non Rhotic southern accent, but if you take a trip out on the south shore of Long Island you'll pretty much be surrounded by it.
I’ve noticed that it tends to be older generations (40s and older) who still sound like this; younger people tend to have more of a standard American accent. I have heard younger people speak with prominent NY accents, but it doesn’t seem to be as common.
So true that this is dying out. I don’t really talk like this, but my family did/does. Must have passed away. But my aunt and cousins still sound like this. I grew up with this accent and it’s like being bilingual. It’s like my second (or maybe first) language. I feel like I lost some of my identity when I moved to CT back in 1972. I’ve noticed that my every day speaking voice now has more “Brooklyn” in it. I think I have been hiding my true accent for a long tone to fit in. Now I’ve embraced it!!
Most people under 40 don't have much of an accent and that's true everywhere. Where I live in Alabama, most 20-somethings could pass for California. Sad to see. I like to hear just about any accent.
@@meriharary that great!
One word defines this accent, it's clean, i wish all Americans could speak like this
Amos Olamilekan honestly same!
Lol no thank you decent accent tho
Nope I luv my accent
no thanks bruv
THATS LIKE AN OLD OLD IRISH AND JEWISH NEW YORK ACCENT.....I HEAR THAT TYPE OF ACCENT IN A MINUTE.....WORD!!!!!
Hot Dawgs with mustid you got sour kaut with that ?
If anything it's more British
I would say more like Italian
Bacardi Jr. British? You sure never lived in Brooklyn
no its nothing like irish
You cannot take the goil outta Brooklyn.
I like Brooklyn accent, I wasn’t raised there but I always try to hard to speak like that lol
LOVE the brooklyn accent!!!
She sounds like Fran from the Nanny lol
I LOVE the old school New Yorker accent.
Thank you!!!
She’s pretty and I love her accent
Ang Jo thank you!!
Such a cute video! I’m infatuated with Brooklyn and Brooklyn accents.
LMAO ! Love that ! Thanks for posting ! Coming from west Texas, ANY accent that tends to de-emphasize "R's" fascinates me. Southerners use extra "R's" One of my favorite NY accent words is "coffee" (cooufie)
Glad you enjoyed it
Finally a Brooklyn accented pretty cool
The fact I'm from Brooklyn and Canarsie blows my mind. Even within Brooklyn and just New York in general. We all have accents. I don't sound like you but it's still very much Brooklyn. lol it's amazing. I love it.
Is it like “eighty-foist street”?
Love this accent, just had to come listen to some of it :)
In a novel I'm working on, I had one underling of the antagonists repeatedly refer to them as "Bossman", and now I can't hear her voice as anything else but Brooklyn accent when I read it back :P
TurquoiseStar17 thank you!! Glad I was an inspiration!!
It's such a cute accent, probably my favorite
The sole reason im watching this video is cuz im reading a fan fic where this character (main) has THICC brooklyn accent, was not dissapointed
It's amazing i starterd laughing as soon as you said I'm 43!!!! lmao But your CT accent just came off like a relaxed Brooklyn girl not over elongated words like we normally do
Hector Puente thanks!!
By far my favourite American accent along with the Boston accent
This is fantastic! Love the accent
There's this thing that I like about the Brooklyn accent like I dunno what it is but listening to that accent is just great to me xD
Dang, she's really good at that!!
That was cute. Thanks for sharing guys!
Sounds like Louise Griffin from Family Guy
Trying to learn this accent for an acting role, this really helps thank you!
Her son sounds smart 👌🏽
I love your hair.
My second-cousin's wife speaks like this. She's married to a man with a thick Tennessee accent.
reading uta hagen, now i know. love the "brooklyn speech", feels home
I'm from New Haven Connecticut, and I honestly hate my accent sometimes cuz I have a weird switch from CT accent to NY accent from all the time I spent in both and it's so funny to see how people treat me when I'm speaking with one or the other.
Don't hate your accent! When I'm in Brooklyn people comment that I have a CT accent. My real accent is CT plus a hint of Brooklyn. I use the CT accent to sound smart! But the Brooklyn accent is more fun and more me. Don't hate your accent. Just be yourself. It's cool to speak with a combo of both.
Brooklyn Mama aww thanks, I live in England now because that's where my family is and everyone jokes around about how my CT accent sounds weird cuz I'm from inner city New Haven haha but I'll start being proud of it. Thank you!
Funny!
Oh fuck I'm in love
I love it!!!!
Why is this amazing
You really need to ask?
love it,i'm from oregon and live in texas! people ask me if i'm from the east coast,i say no from oregon,, lately i find myself saying you all,lol,,you do not look 43 in video,30's!! sometimes i wish i was in my 40's again or 30's take that too,,thanks for sharing very cute video,love the hair!
That accent is amazing. It turns me on and makes me want to cry at the same time. Maybe I'm oversharing but hahaha FTW
Lol!
he said resrawnt!!!! omg love
Fantastic
Thank you!
What a stunning accent
Thank you. Yes, I have stunned a lot of people! 😜
I am Ca-NAY-dian being a goof with my own daughter and “put on” a New “Yohk” accent, particularly the word “tired”. I said to her that it sounded mostly “like Brooklyn” and searched here straight over to you. This is cute and such a treasure as the little guy who made this would be 22 (!) now? Anyway, I do wish you’d said “ti-ahed” in your talk but I love it. Now I need to actually take her to Brooklyn!
Hi! What a nice comment! Yes, I wish you could hear how I say “tired.” It’s more like “tiyud.” My son was 10 when he filmed this and now he is 20 in college studying to be a doctor and pianist. I have 3 other kids as well, 18, 17 and 15. I will always miss my old neighborhood in Canarsie, Brooklyn. That neighborhood from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s doesn’t exist anymore. I’m sure the new 2023 neighborhood is great too.
Gorgeous
for a person non-english speaking person living in a foreign country which used to air "Friends". I'd say it reminds me of "oh my god!"
Lol. My grandma came from Brooklyn and went to live in CT in the 30s. She use to say earl for oil. Lol.
Your accent sound more like from Queens!
That is not a Queens accent lol... That's a Jewish NY one lol
Is it me or it really resembles the queens accent?
Love it.
Like for the interviewer because she did a great job!
I love that accent haha. I'm from the south though
Nice!! I live in Canarsie 👍🏽
I hear Rosie O'Donnell and Cyndi Lauper loud and clear!!!
Your accent is beautiful
Thank you!!!
Your welcome
Good morning
My high school math teacher is from Brooklyn and she talked like this all the time.
Fantastic video
Thanks for the visit
perfect
You look like two different person toe, so cool! Thank you for sharing this video!
(Greetings from Russia)
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The brooklyn accent is pretty funny
Very good. :) Makes me miss NYC & Brooklyn. The nasaly tone reminds me of Lois Griffin from Family Guy. 😄❤ Luv it! Take care.
Thank you!!!
Your curly hair is beautiful meri harary
Awwww you’re adorable
Like the accent!. You hair style reminds me of the actress Clara Bow.
Great!
This accent heard likes mixture British and american
What part of ct have u been living in?
I live in southern Louisiana and I had the pleasure of speaking with a lovely woman from New Jersey; she asked where I was from I said New Orleans she said she was surprised that it sounded like I was from New York.
Ahhh man, I love that Brooklyn accent, and I aint even from America. I could imagine its not that common anymore. I wark an I tawk um frum brooklyn nu yawk, lol
Thanks so much!!
You are gorgeous! 😍
thanks...it was 8 years ago...now I’m even more gorgeous!
@@meriharary I believe it too. I'm 39/m/ny. 6ft3. About 200 pounds.
@@meriharary i sent a message on facebook if you want to chat
Oh please, you sound adorable. With either accent. But I love the Brooklyn one more. "Cause I sound like the "Long Island Medium" myself.
I grew up in Canarsie on Glenwood and E 81st
Check out my newest Brooklyn accent video!
this is exactly how my relatives sound. very strong brooklyn accent, my grandparents and their siblings grew up together in the same neighborhood.
if anyone is wondering how there are multiple different new york accents, its divided between Italian, Irish, and German immigrant populations. Brooklyn is influenced by Irish, and while there are still pockets of Irish immigrant neighborhoods in new york, theyre starting to be taken down and people are moving away. the more "stereotypical" new york accent is influenced by Italian, which has been the case since The Godfather released.
Elias-they lived in Brooklyn from the 40s till the 90s.
Beautiful ❤
I was on East 82nd. Pretty good accent here.
Bruhklynites will say the ear is cold outside in Winter.
Hi. my grandparents lived on E 81 and my other grandparents lived on E 86!
@@meriharary I was there for a few years in the mid-90s. When was your family there?
I was born in da Bronx, then moved to Bruhklyn, then Monsey, now Joisey.
first there was bloody Mary then there was hairy mary
Eat your heart out!!!
Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Da Bronx accents are unfortunately starting to disappear with the influx of Foreigners into the Boroughs…Being Italian from L.I. With Roots in Brooklyn meant something special with family reunions. Listening to my Uncles & Cousins Tawk was like being Cradled in a Big Loaf of Bread dipped in Sunday Sauce…The Accents, Food, Music & Culture are quickly Passing Away like ALL of my Uncles, Aunts, Parents and Cousins…. Moving to South Florida seemed to have Ripped the tastebuds out of my Mouth and the ears from my Head…. When people say, “The World is One Big Melting Pot”…I Cringe and say, “I Liked it More when it was a Salad of Different Taste”….
J-E-T-S !!!!!
I agree. It’s a dying accent. Older people had it, like people born in NY before 1960/70. I’m copying the way my older relatives spoke who have all passed away.
Great comment. Thank you.
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Lol...great video...thanks!
Awesome hearing it from a woman! Great job! XD
I'm from New Zealand and I love your Brooklyn accent😍😍😍😍
Forget about it....i said forget about it!
Johnny, sure. I'm on Facebook as Meri Harary
I grew up in Brooklyn's run down Bush Terminal section in the 1950's/60's. All thru grammar, junior, and high schools they painstakingly tried to teach us proper annunciation and NOT to have an accent so we could go anywhere and not be pegged as a Brooklynite. I've been away since 1987 and still get comments. Ain't no accent like Brooklynese, fuhgeddaboudit.
The nanny
Next time you visit your relatives, think you can get them to talk on camera?
Canarsie in the house. 84th and ave j baby
Random but it’s easier to transition into an accent like a Brooklyn one, rather than the Connecticut one, from my English accent because they don’t have that American R pronunciation.
I absolutely love the Brooklyn accent 🥰
Thank you!!
I'm from Canarsie too😀😊
Karen silas I moved in 1972! I lived on East 81st Street, as did my grandma. My other grandparents lived on East 86. Are you around my age (49)?
I will say it's not clean Brooklyn but it's recognisable
I wish I had a Brooklyn accent! I’m very southern.
Southern accents are beautiful!
Meri Harary ☺️
Hang out with Meri and me and we'll have you become the expert in the now dead Brooklyn accent. You will get all the subtleties you need so you won't sound like a 1940s gangster!
@@lisarubin2835 I’d love too!
i need the accent
I'm from Long Island, and all I can say is, what accent?
What's the difference between the Brookyln accent and the Long Island and Nanny accents?
Good question... there are variations of this accent. This one is a little exaggerated and old fashioned (although my family spoke like this). I have a Canarsie video where I speak in a less exaggerated accent. Long Island and “the Nanny,” who is from Queens, have a less song-song quality perhaps, and are not as strong. Fran Drescher does not speak like the “Nanny” in real life. My family, on the other hand spoke just like this. They grew up in Brooklyn in the the 1930s-50s. It’s an old-fashioned accent for sure.
@@meriharary I like when Barbra Streisand says Hello Gawgeous in Funny Girl. Where is Cyndi Lauper from? She has a strong NYC accent.
I think Cyndi is from Brooklyn. Barbara said that with a perfect Brooklyn accent!
@@meriharary NYC accents will always be popular. Old episodes of Seinfeld are still being shown on TV and many old and new entertainers are from NYC. Joy Behar is very popular on The View and she's originally from Brooklyn.
Requiem for a dream irl lol
MATILDAS MUM IS QUAKING
Brooklyn accent
I have two words me ow
** SWOON! **
Canarsie 🥳🙌🏽
What kind of help do you need?
Thats cool
starts at 0:31
meri harary could you teach me a brooklyn accent its awesomest more realistic accent i know some people in new york are losing a brooklyn accent you are so lucky you have it permently losing a accent is sad you can teach a lot of people how to do a accent to bring back thair dialect 😢😢