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

@tmalone2530

3 жыл бұрын

much agreed.

@troyyy22235

3 жыл бұрын

@@tmalone2530 cwofe

@greenmachine5600

2 жыл бұрын

@me embrace it.

@AMPProf

2 жыл бұрын

Yahh... but she says You's once and bam NJ

@nunoshkazolansky4107

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@cori4727

6 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@TheYoli182

5 жыл бұрын

Your from Flatbush Gardens lol you mean Vanderveer?

@Ghiani16

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@TheGeneralJos

7 жыл бұрын

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

7 жыл бұрын

The older New Yorkers generation do sound like this.

@nspector

6 жыл бұрын

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

@Fierra2000

5 жыл бұрын

This doesn't sound strong

@greenmachine5600

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fierra2000 True, Its not even that strong.

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

@ub3rfr3nzy94

9 жыл бұрын

Katie Cleland lol, how?

@PoissonVisageStudios

9 жыл бұрын

+Kat Cleland I'm English, and same.

@awesomeamazing5752

9 жыл бұрын

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

@darraghakhtar7680

8 жыл бұрын

Omg same 😂

@yusufgta4341

7 жыл бұрын

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.

@naomimitchell4345

9 жыл бұрын

Georgia Smith Sooooooooooooooooooo right!

@naomimitchell4345

9 жыл бұрын

what do you mean?

@awesomeamazing5752

9 жыл бұрын

True lol Trying if ur Aussie gives u a scottish/canadian accent

@crazyjingle55

8 жыл бұрын

+Georgia Smith so true!

@trobomobo7033

8 жыл бұрын

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.

@nspector

7 жыл бұрын

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!

@riana3444

2 жыл бұрын

How do I sound more native

omg sounds like Janice

@vanessabarron8197

8 жыл бұрын

Too bad she doesn't have the laugh lol

@amber-lousawyer2509

4 жыл бұрын

Or Estelle

@thisleftylefty

4 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

Ooahw maayy Gwooaaahhhd

@SL-pg4dh

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

I work in construction and every guy has a NY accent

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

3 жыл бұрын

Omfg same

@jaidaphillips7217

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

The way I sound either sounds Southern or British lol

You sound like Estelle from friends

@aminathliu

6 жыл бұрын

I WAS LEGIT GONNA COMMENT THE SAME THING

@f.b.i8809

6 жыл бұрын

Joey, its Estelle.

@Chris_Goodrum

4 жыл бұрын

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

@wendywheeler2651

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking Janice but yeah Estelle too!

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

@studioeproductioncompany1494

4 жыл бұрын

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

@worldcreation2028

3 жыл бұрын

@@studioeproductioncompany1494 lmao this foo said sourthern, howdy partner

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

@MeesTW

8 жыл бұрын

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

@kostarossides5062

8 жыл бұрын

+Mees I think she sounds like Carmela.

@notpebbles310

8 жыл бұрын

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

@hittingtax2670

6 жыл бұрын

I thought Naomi was Australian.

@gabiocampos

6 жыл бұрын

Not bad at all 😍

So basically you gotta go through a meditation session before talking

@1TrueJuliet

9 жыл бұрын

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

@Composify

3 жыл бұрын

Or you can just smoke a joint.

@TheChanelcupcake

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much

OOOOH my God, it's Chandler Bing lol

@1TrueJuliet

9 жыл бұрын

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

@nataliemarie4325

6 жыл бұрын

Hahahahha

@rowanthomas9181

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

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.

nicki minaj sounds like this.

@youtubechannel-uz9sh

5 жыл бұрын

Is she from new York?

@jalalnabila5140

5 жыл бұрын

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

@youtubechannel-uz9sh

5 жыл бұрын

@@jalalnabila5140 ok

@uwu-fm2kj

4 жыл бұрын

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

@benwyatt7619

4 жыл бұрын

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

Your approach to accents is fantastic,

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_

Жыл бұрын

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 more of a Staten Island /north jersey accent

@tam260

10 жыл бұрын

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

@kbermann

7 жыл бұрын

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

@todaywithjerdin

7 жыл бұрын

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

@OdinsHallsBrazilianJiuJitsu

6 жыл бұрын

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

lorna morello

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

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

@shayfarley7253

5 жыл бұрын

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.

im a bonafide new yorker and she absolutely nailed it!

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

@pierrefonseca3122

7 жыл бұрын

because she was born and raised in Brooklyn.

@rogerswindell7537

4 жыл бұрын

YOU GONNA SHOOT A DEEEAH ??

@wesleyneilsen7671

3 жыл бұрын

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.

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

“A tree bolted to the ground” haha great vid

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

3 жыл бұрын

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.

Amy, you are amazing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Awesome tips! I love it!

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.

love this video, great job at explaining

It's such a sexy accent.

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.

Awesome! Really helps with my lines on my script!

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

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

@Shayla.r

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@vickjr98

3 жыл бұрын

Basten

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

4 жыл бұрын

“rawr xD”

@_niroke_

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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

You are awesome I absolutely love your accent !

This is brilliant!

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.

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...

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

@jenquin2740

8 жыл бұрын

I freaking love New York pretzels!😛

@billyblackattacks

8 жыл бұрын

these pretzels are making me thirsty!

@jnwd1723

6 жыл бұрын

+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."

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

Hey! Excellent tip:)) Thx!

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

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

9 жыл бұрын

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.

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!

This is how my aunt sounds! Lol!

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.

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

@joyasaxena9976

4 жыл бұрын

Sameeee

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

This is perfect!

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

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

Great tips!

so beautiful and decisive

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

@greenmachine5600

2 жыл бұрын

stop the steretypes.

2:07 What's up with new yorkers and walls? They seem to go along very well.

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

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

Stop this classist trash talk. This accent is great.

Amazing video

I love this so much ❤️ love ❤️

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.

So much cultural nostalgia. :,)

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.

@greenmachine5600

2 жыл бұрын

and some people mistakenly think the New York accent is Italian LOL.

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

You´re a very talented young lady.

From Jersey. Wow Amy, you're good.

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

9 жыл бұрын

jenna marbles.

@Dave-cq1sl

9 жыл бұрын

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

9 жыл бұрын

THE SOPRANOS IS FAKE? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

@XinBiDe

9 жыл бұрын

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

9 жыл бұрын

Timothy Germann trust she sounds exactly like Adriana

Love this girl she is excellent

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

Nice! I have a question. What is the difference between this one and L.A. accent? Thanks! :=)

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

Phenomenal.

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

You're amazing.

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

Excellent accent and so very pretty 😍

Brilliant.

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.

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