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.

@sumoni

9 жыл бұрын

I thought it was funny, I dunno what people are so uptight about.

@vigwig

9 жыл бұрын

***** Thanks, I dunno why either, but this is youtube after all.

@marefynn81

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@ripgeorgesmith9021

9 жыл бұрын

I love it lol

@sketchbook8706

9 жыл бұрын

Lol, I laughed like fuck !.....greetings from London, the one in England.

Queens accent = Janice from Friends

@stephanithompson

8 жыл бұрын

thats what i thought

@skrivbok

7 жыл бұрын

I thought of Fran Drescher, lol

@abdallahali657

7 жыл бұрын

Natalia c You Got It😂😂

@lorenzoeldude

7 жыл бұрын

OH...MY....GOD!!!!

@MichaelTheAwesome32

7 жыл бұрын

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.

@omelas8375

5 жыл бұрын

The Italian New York. Me!

@emperorlelouch5696

5 жыл бұрын

Facts

@andriyakarim5179

5 жыл бұрын

Brooklyn sicilian

@AyeeeItsCam

5 жыл бұрын

Those are ethnicities not nationalities but yessir

@profoundgenius9726

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@squid1313

8 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! !! lmao so true

@vendetta1306

8 жыл бұрын

XD

@wel8266

8 жыл бұрын

Lol George Costanza's mom.

@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs

7 жыл бұрын

Fran Drescher 😂😂😂

@georgewang2947

7 жыл бұрын

White Blogger Black Specs She really is from Queens

Anyone else wish she had said "Chandler Bing!" in the Brooklyn accent?

@polorican5023

8 жыл бұрын

+Taylor Craft or oh my god

@charlottethomsen8076

6 жыл бұрын

I think it would’ve been better in the Queens accent!

@skrivbok

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@Tracymmo

5 жыл бұрын

Queens!

@thebookwasbetter3650

3 жыл бұрын

That's Mrs. Chanandler Bong to you.

She sounded like Lois from family guy at 1:05 lol

@UrAvrgYoutubeWatcher

9 жыл бұрын

And Janice from Friends

@SuperImmunologist

7 жыл бұрын

Andrew Soto you beat me to it

@samfinlayson1758

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Soto i thought that too

@boyeonrhee336

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Soto Thinking the same exact thing

@ch053n8

6 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHA

as a Bronx native, she did us right lol

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!

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!!!!

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! :)

So Lois Griffin has got to be from Queens XD

@squid1313

8 жыл бұрын

hahahaha yes I laughed at that

@shaungordon9737

8 жыл бұрын

hers is a Boston accent

@g-wm6392

8 жыл бұрын

+Shaun Gordon really? i feel she's more of a queens kinda woman

@dankburrito4219

8 жыл бұрын

+G -WM Well, they're in Rhode Island which is in the New England region.

@Dablkwid0w2008

7 жыл бұрын

PEE-TAH

Janice? Is that you :O

@fronkthecat1717

10 жыл бұрын

LOL! i LOVE This comment.

@kekkak7112

10 жыл бұрын

janice who

@openneon9240

7 жыл бұрын

from friends

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.

@mustainefan

9 жыл бұрын

story of my fucking life

@Diziyer25

9 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 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 😂😂😂

@squashedshibber2684

9 жыл бұрын

Diziyer25 Queens born too :D

@mustainefan

9 жыл бұрын

Seal Girl I sound "weird" in Queens and like a New Yorker in Cali lol

@Diziyer25

8 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

@theterence20able

10 жыл бұрын

word she don't know.

@Cat_main_apex

4 жыл бұрын

queens is action Bronson

@foodreviews3454

4 жыл бұрын

I’m 17 and I have that Queens accent that she demonstrates. Well it’s not so exaggerated. But it’s pretty obvious.

@ChaoticButterfly

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@drewsomerville2234

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

"There's a pain living in Queens, cause it's so boring" hahahaha!!

Omfg that queens accent slayed me alive I can’t breathe even I’m dying over here. 😂

This is absolutely first rate!!! I am almost 80 years old, born and raised in NYC and this vid is the best !!!

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.

@butter1950

9 жыл бұрын

I totally agree Larry.

@kapo2012fb

9 жыл бұрын

100 percent agree

@SmoochBoosh

9 жыл бұрын

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

@marefynn81

9 жыл бұрын

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.

@SmoochBoosh

9 жыл бұрын

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.

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!

@robertmcnabb3412

9 ай бұрын

I read decades back that Archie was based on Yonkers...da Boyd sittin' on da coib....or whatever....

@jujubees711

9 ай бұрын

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.

@robertmcnabb3412

9 ай бұрын

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.

@davedaddy101

9 ай бұрын

This is truth

When these accents are gone, this video will be playing on loop at a museum

This is one of my favorite videos on KZread. 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!!

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!!!

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 vids is genuinely nice, truly fun to watch.

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 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

lol the queens one sounds like george costanza's mom

@4allicare

10 жыл бұрын

..who was from queens

@Atem_in_the_streets

4 жыл бұрын

Don't come back unless you bring me grand children!!

Its always these 2 minute clips from 10 years ago that make you happy

I love how you mimic the accents! Sounds so real!!

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.

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.

I love it! I always wondered about the different accents around New York City. Blows my mind to have such variety in one city!

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

this sounds more like if you're doing cartoon characters rather than normal people accent

Completely accurate.....if youre an older jewish woman

@ohohvalerie

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahahha

Loved this. My daughter wanted to know what a New York accent sounded like and your videos was perfect.

I'm crying!! This was so on point and funny! Hahahahaha wish it was longer.

Queens in the building!

@nox7282

4 жыл бұрын

Is there a pain, as she said?

@diorme9941

3 жыл бұрын

@@nox7282 hell no we’re the worlds borough queens is lit, a lot of people hate on us

lol, the Manhattan one reminds me of a friend.

@yunahuang6896

4 жыл бұрын

and manhattan kids still talk like this -- busy city

OMG! This is so right on point, it is absolutely hilarious. Truly, one of the funniest things I've ever seen on KZread. 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!

@vigwig

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it.

I love this video so much so, that gotta watch it every now and then!

I got a kick out of this, but puleeez...Queens is NOT boring!

I’m from the capital region and I sound like the Manhattan one..

I’m from Brooklyn and I can’t deny this. Even in Brooklyn theirs different accents .

@taino20

4 жыл бұрын

I wish you could give some examples, like Coney vs. Fort Greene or Red Hook vs. Brownsville.

Well done!!!! Lived in NY for 30 years and I think you nailed it!

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.

great job. thanks!

@douglascastro6913

3 жыл бұрын

This is awful. She found one ethnic enclave , picked a stereotypical rendition of that accent . Then did variations of it for each borough.

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 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.

da boogie down bronx#1 my hood

@TitoThen

8 жыл бұрын

Same 👍💪

@tyrantgod4045

8 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@nadiradutt8470

5 жыл бұрын

NADIRA DUTT YEAH

@prince_sach50

5 жыл бұрын

Y'all don't speak like that in this video tho lol

@minervagomez1641

4 жыл бұрын

Boogie down Bronxxx

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. :)

This was a wonderful, quick synopsis of the New York City accent. I never thought of breaking it down by Burroughs.

I always come back to this video to make myself laugh.

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!

Representing Flushing Queens in the hoooouuuussse!

The “I’ll have to get back to you next week” sent me into orbit

lmao I love ur commentary on bronx and Manhattan

The 2nd one sound like Lorna Morello on OITNB

@Tracymmo

5 жыл бұрын

She does, by her own admission, a hybrid of Brooklyn and Boston.

Lmao I found that joke about Staten Island so funny due to the fact that I live in Jersey lmaoooo omg.

I called California recently with a question about ordering merchandise. The girl on the phone asked: Where are you from? I said, "New York City__Staten Island". She laughed and said, "I know, I can tell by your accent". Are New Yorkers really that identifiable? lol

@Tracymmo

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! Many of you, at least.

I am a Staten Islander born and raised. Absolutely loved this video . . . fugeddaboutit!

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 hysterically funny! right on point!!!!! I am curious to see this persons face!

@joninance5123

10 жыл бұрын

Google Amy Walker, seeing her do accents live is even more hilarious!!!

Amazingly funny and educational. Love it!

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

Brooklyn's accent sounds like Danny Devito's wife-Rhea Pearlman :D

These were Jewish people

@eazydaiz6695

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this guy gets it lmao

@thegigadykid1

6 жыл бұрын

Lol right

@theoneandonlypinkypinky8245

3 жыл бұрын

But NYC used to be more Jewish. It is accurate if she is doing 30 years ago or so.

Love it! Born in Brooklyn, raised in Queens - I can vouch for it, ya know?

Whewwww made my skin crawl with some of the high pitch ones.

Queens- Fran Drescher and Edith Bunker.

Wonderful! You have a great ear, this is fantastic. Thanks

OMG that was funny - AND - educational! (spot on) proving once again that learning is life long and need not be dull and tedious.

Loved everything about this

Brooklyn at 0:40 sounds exactly like the mom on Matilda the movie.

Well now we no where Louis is from of family guy

@Re-Todd_Howard

7 жыл бұрын

Bowstan

@leoisbad463

6 жыл бұрын

Jeez are you illiterate or something?

Thanks for posting this!

I love it. Vig is funny. The very rushed Manhattan accent is hilarious.

This sounds very old school. I doubt you'll here many people with these accents in New York any more.

@theoneandonlypinkypinky8245

3 жыл бұрын

it is accurate for 30 years ago too many transplants here now!

@greenmachine5600

3 жыл бұрын

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.

Thank you much appreciated. I'm a retired opera singer/actor.

Me and my friends found an old tunnel under the boundhouse in Flushing at the Weeping Beach Park when we were kids

Freakin love the narration and the savage comments are hilarious.

I'm from flushing queens and i do not speak like that 😂😂😂the Manhattan one was accurate tho

Ain't no one from queens speak like that and it mostly depends the type a neighborhood u from more than the borough

@grilledflatbread4692

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah people who speak that way moved to Nassau and beyond.

its actually unsettling how accurate the staten island 1 is. it gave me chills

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 :)

Queens accent sounds like Janice, Chandler's ex from Friends

This was most fascinating to an English girl like me 😐

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).

Wonderful, vigwig! Very fun :) SInce you're from Queens, Can you tell me anything about streets upon streets of small, identical houses? When were they built and for whom?

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!

@heathermiller6046

5 жыл бұрын

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 😉

She sounds like Mort Goldman

So awesome and so on point! thank you!!

Wow, that's awesome! I'm obsessed with accents and this is new knowledge to me. Nice video, thanx

This was funny

on change pas les habitudes …💀

@lounalm8466

3 жыл бұрын

oue

@lounalm8466

3 жыл бұрын

en plus je comprend rien

@kln3812

3 жыл бұрын

@@lounalm8466 ta guele

@lounalm8466

3 жыл бұрын

@@kln3812 ftg

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)

QUEENS IS NOT BORING it's so underrated damn