New York English 04

[BeckyKuek]

So helpful! Thanks, bud :)



[ACaffeineAddict]

More popular greeting from New York than any of these is "Hey." usually accompanied with the inverted nod. Almost as ubiquitous is "Whassup" or more commonly, "S'up?"

As for good byes, "later" is the most common one I hear.

[Sputteeee]

How bout "Later"? Is that condescending, or can you use it as a good bye to friends?

[Kamikazee011]

I like watching your videos. You sound like a 1920's mafia. Hehe.

[MandrakeMoorglade]

The correct plural for you is ye. But if you use that you start sounding like a shakespearian actor. You may as well be using the informal you: (thou, thee, thy, thine) which is no longer in use either. So I guess yous is a more acceptable plural of you than ye.

[HrlmWrld646]

BUT it's the best city in tha U.S.(can't say the world bc I've never been outside the country smh), you may not like it at first, OR you may love it, but either way, you'll get used to it...hopefully lol....ENJOY!!!

[HrlmWrld646]

For everyone who's moving to NY you'll see why we keep convo's short...BUSY life, ESP in the city...most likely you're in a rush, whether it's bc you're actually late for something, or just trying not to get ran over. Having a convo with someone is kind of hard when you're amongst 10 million ppl, 10 million agressive ppl at that. But the whole "RUDE" thing is a myth. Rude ppl are EVERYWHERE...I've lived in Atlanta and met FAR more assholes there than in NY

[DodgeEffect]

That nod is used where I live, Edinburgh, either that or "Orite?"

[BradComis]

What makes these videos great is not the dialect. It's the cultural insight. That's what makes it interesting.

[TimeDefeater]

lol we do that nod in belgium => antwerp also!

[HoodieOn60]

I dont think the nodding is a new york thing. I guess people do that everywhere even to people they know a little bit better. good video tho!

[oOLG4UsOo]

Thanks for all these, beats the accent how tops that the teacher gave us for our play noo yoik he says =.= and I practice some random words you say (tawk

[stangTCODE]

OK ,WITH A NEW yak ACCENT I WILL SAY THIS,,

so the phuc u goud dame so pose to have phucckin convo station wit the god mudder fakker BUDDIE u aint seen for 6 or so 12 months & tellhim the the latest shiat been hapeninn,,u nkow wat i der umm FUKKin speaking

[tobyhawk828]

i wanna go from my california accent to this since british is way too hard yet hella cool

[flamingaxe791]

Did he die? why isnt he making more videos!

[elva2011]

Your ny bids are great but the accent is the city and long island, not really upstate which is where I live(not really upstate though,its like 20 min outside the city)

[YayaLaKidd]

A lot of this reminds me of how we interact in Chicago

[GimmeKitty]

This guy does good.

He aint' perfect, but ... he's alright.

[nini724]

he wrong

[GimmeKitty]

@nini724 How so?

[nini724]

@GimmeKitty khux he is !

[TiNTSauce]

jeez seriously new yorkers are mean xDD lmao. still think theyre awesome

[GimmeKitty]

@TiNTSauce Not mean,

We get to the point. We're direct. Who cares, right?

[intoAdream]

haha, I love this <3 One of my best friends is from NY & all of this is so true :P Also, we say yous in Philly too :)

[GimmeKitty]

@intoAdream Youse in Baltimore, too.

[woofwoofyoyo]

When I see friends walking down the halls at school, I give them that little upwards nod and mouth "wassup". Not even ment to have an question mark, 'coz thats how it is.

[sweatertastic15]

Ha my dad who's from NY says "yous" and I'm always correcting him X)

[GimmeKitty]

@sweatertastic15 Don't fucking correct him. Just roll with it. That's what makes US, us!

[chrissy09ww]

Aww.. This was very helpful thank you!

[XxiceskatergurlxX]

i never realized how many times i've done the "inverted nod" thing lol

[Plasjif]

u sound like joey wheeler from yugioh

[Quinzio]

This is really cool.

You speak at approx double the speed I speak (in italian).

Greeting from Italy, see you.

[Orbit283]

Haha!

Question do you guys like hate tourists?

cuz i wanna go to New York but like i dont want people being like.

"stupid tourists" you know?

[jjbro1]

@Orbit283 i take it that your from california?

[kaikai123417]

@Orbit283 go to 34th or 42nd and you'll see why lol People in NY move at a quick pace so when tourists walk around and take pictures they usually do so in a slow fashion and are sometimes unaware of other people around them which is not exactly the coolest thing when you're in a rush to get somewhere. But contrary to popular belief we are friendly, so visit! :)

[LadySaanum93]

"I say Excellent!" lol

[u2bealot]

Great video.

[itsxjoeellleee]

woo you waited until it was cooler in order to make your fourth video :p

it was fun watching you complain about the heat though..

[JustCallmEJaX]

Its not only the way u say it it's how...we use lots of hand gestures...so if u dont understand or your deaf u can basically get the gist of it by watching our hands..also the f*ck is used in almost every statement..and if u dont know the name of a person u call them by there race..its not considered to be racist..ex. u know the korean guy who works the store down the block he ripped me off telling me this sh*t a dollar when i know its 75cents..oh and blocks are streets..

[toba122]

whaddoyasay is kind of like what's up

[Arctura000]

knucklehead! LOL. :)

[DeathJunkE]

the yous thing is more long island, Manhattan Brooklyn Queens area is more of a ya

[iProVoK3D]

doesnt everyone do the nod

[3io5t23u89re8gft8sdk]

so cute

[AA1969]

"whadda you say? Not Much" you look just like De Niro. :-)

[T1meW4st3d]

I say Ya'll all the damn time and i cant imagine saying anything else. Seems most people in Austin TX really wanna know how ur doing when they ask "How ya doin." or "What cha up to?"

[MrCh00by3]

those head nods are also popular in Europe

[bfhgdsksiofhls]

this dude is awesome - by far the best NY accent training on here... thanks for takin the time! signed: a NYaccent-studying actor AND English teacher!

[ErickRiversTJ]

@bfhgdsksiofhls

Dude i'm an English teacher too, and I'm also studying the NY accent so i can do it in my classes !, jaja

[RiVa667]

important = impoaent

i love oa

[kittykat2125]

its true :P

we are so lazy i love it

[Crazee108]

Speaking of a rush... =/ It's kinda weird that you guys shorten *everything*... even sayin how without the w... =/

[almasry]

that's what I'm trying to get people to understand here in Egypt. I'm teaching my own people and every week they get to hear different accents which somehow confuses them. So we stick to standard American accent and then on a seperate activity, I take the time to compare for them and elaborate on the subtleties.

It's interesting to see that learners think there's only one way to speak English.

[heygyal]

this is a total tutorial for how to sound liek an italian from brooklyn

[sebseb1]

youse or yers: this is said in liverpool, england. its from the irish immigrants whose own language and dialects had a plural you which english did not have, so they invented it!

i reckon it must be the same in new york, from the irish immigrants

[blackiebori]

So, yuz guys have dat too ah? How many jews and italians yuz got deir in liverpool......tell me DAT!

[sebseb1]

about 54 jews and 16 italians

[blackiebori]

o rly....

[BusBoyIsBack]

This was epic

[lucaboris]

hahaha New Yorkers are EXACTLY like people from Amsterdam

[CommDonald]

I wonder why.......hummmmmm......

[wewantyouTV]

lol, how are they the same? I'm from Amsterdam

[lucaboris]

Business like way of dealing with those affairs.

[southcop]

what do you have to say'bout Mount Vernon NY accent?

[Clogsarehot]

Haha, small world. Im from Sweden, we do the "nod" aswell, when you walk by someone you always see , but dont talk to. We also have the short answer 2 how you doing? its always good, no one wanna hear about your problems.

[BaiLong45]

Reminds me of some of the old timers I know here in Northern New Jersey. Sounds like home.

[DorianJamesFox]

Damn, this has got to be my favourite accent! Awesome videos man! We do that 'inverted nod' thing in northern england too, but I think it's definitely a New Yorke thing.

[0thaistick0]

what's the last word he said? ....I heard like "Kor tod tee" haha which is thai!!

[axxo702]

Word?

Ya

Phrase?

I'll talk to ya

[SingsForFood]

"Nobody cares about your troubles, OK? These are greetings -- not inquisitions into the state of your actual mental health." Too funny.

[NYLeila]

Yo! im from New york! LONG ISLAND <3

[farigahna]

You are goood

[NYJ1337]

Haha I've pretty much lost my New York Accent coming from Westchester, but after I moved I kind of went a standard english, but I still do a little coAffee type sounds. The head nod is definetely a New York thing cause I did it where I moved and some people were like "uhhhh... wtf? You look retarded."

[ddentici]

funny dude...proud ny'er here...love my talk....no doubt Dere is moh, actually, but maybe youvadanuff. Anyway, assawayigoze so fuhgeddaboutit ...like dat..lol

[SilverPiller]

4:51 HA HA, look at his face...so funny. btw, your great

[agrv8ion]

yous, plural of you, cracks me up so much

[koffiejuffrouw]

"and if you're not, act like you are" brilliant

[AndrewLikesMusic]

I'm seeing so many similarities in Northern Ireland dialect and New York xD

[Psychochaos3]

His voice is so mesmerizing in the way that you could never imagine it saying "mesmerizing".

[hkgoldendotcom]

um, the inverse head nod is rather universal

[Vocallycool]

HAHA, we def do the head nod in nyc

[Applgrl91]

kewl mini lessons. didn't even notice an accent till u pointed it out. lol, u sound like me. u should've made more vids funny guy

[AmericanPrideForEver]

I still prefer our midwest accent

[LadyGaga13y]

you's is the way we speak in ireland lol

or ya's or yi's lol

[YPUK0PALMY]

here in new zealand the inverted nod is like waving or saying "hey hows it going?".

wen you walk up 2 sum1 and you dont really know wat 2 say, you jst go "siihg" its hard to write down but u know it wen u here it

[ItsRainingDonkeys]

new york accent seem really fast. the flow of it is really hard not like other accents.

[Annelvine]

its for courtesy smart one...........obviously your not from around here

[CouRtneySmilEs13]

lol you are my idol...so i got this this lata

[aloysiustheteddy]

'sometimes you just move your mouth and no words come out' LOL

[krnsoldier]

haha i definitely have done that

[Ramsez]

2 days

[lessthanhannahx]

whadda ya say?

excellent.

haaaa

[Alexej112]

this is some cool clips. learnd some good things from it :)

[Flamingrivers]

These vids help me alot with my acting, thanks for this!

[apenilakaunakkena]

good stuff

[ylimewohc]

are you a hong konger?

[hellokittycutie2003]

I say I gotta run, I'll talk to you, see ya, and a few others; and I'm from the south.

[italianblack21]

you really actually do help alot

[issipoo]

thats the thing new yorkers dont give a fuck

[Annelvine]

so true lol

[mercyhurstchic]

But the thing is, he's right. It is inappropriate to state one's real feelings in words, unless the response indicates happiness and/or satisfaction and the responder genuinely has those feelings. If the responder is not happy or satisfied, they still must use words that indicate good feelings.

[soulquarian69]

thanx meng...

[rocksmazda]

great vidios man. i was born an raised in NY but livin in chicago now. i always thot ppl out here talked weird but after watchin your vids, i guess its me. ha. well thanks for teachin me somthin about myself.

[hottdog2007]

has ya doin

[chrisbaronne]

make a part 5 please !!

[pk1lebgirl87]

hehe i love ur vids!!!

[helloxtheree]

hey how ya doin

[leontheking21]

i gotta run isnt a new york phrase, its pretty global.

[DrSmrtypantz]

now i'm looking back at my OWN new york accent and how I speak to people and everything. I had no idea "i gotta run" was a NY phrase. i thought everyone used it, but i guess not xD

[cococahoo]

your the best dude. i'm a new yorker and when my cousins from hawaii visit sometimes it's hard for us to understand eachother. mostly me not being understood

[abbycortese]

my aunt lives in staten isalnd and when i get on the phone with her she'll be talking for 5 minutes straight and ill have ABSOLUTLY no idea what shes talking about haha ( im from cali)

[tzzel]

you are good man. nice closer.

[mrmuffins007]

yea we use the nod alot back in the west too

[iMPERiOUS]

i thought the plural version of ya was yall

when its 1 guy i say how ya doin

when it's more than 1 guy, i say how yall doin

isnt that a new york thing also?

[Superboy316KING]

you hear that more in the hood

[nickg887]

hicks say that not new yorkers

[OmnipotentO]

yeah!! fuck grammar!

[halomerric]

thanks its good to know , in case you visit New York or even decide to go move out there:)

[SoundwaveSuperior373]

be like ima crack this book over ur fukin head to the teacher signature bensonhurst line

[stevoNYC]

You forgot to mention though when return to the greeting the polite thing to do is to give a quick positive response followed with the exact same greeting question that was given to you but no response is to expected. Ex:

A: How ya been?

B: Good', How ya been?

A: Ain't seen ya in a while..ETC. ETC.

[WeAreBullets]

lol, omg, i say "yas" all the time, i didnt realize that was a NY thing too, cause i have a bit of a NY thing goin in my vocab. this is good stuff, some people dont have a clue wat there talkin about.

[chubsz808]

I LOVE IT! haha i'm ova hea dien mega hawd!

[Pixelmatt]

Hey these are really useful, thanks!

[beckaroni99]

ha thats how we talk in colorado too

even the gestures

[strudelmytoast821]

haha no its not !! haha where do you live lol

[mrsubconscious]

this is the best vid in your "NY Series". Love it.

[ibanezjam]

this is cool I like the 101 on new york english I live in georgia an d I can't stand my son's accent he's picking up from his little redneck friend . thinking of moving back home to new york/new jersey shore

[nhunka]

This is so helpful for me cuz I just came a moth ago as an exchange student and I wanna catch up somethin new

[staryynights1616]

hehe your so funny. i enjoy watch your vids.

[joelblueyes]

did he say "personble" at 1:23?!?

[noelrocks4eva]

yeh he said personable

[schizma111]

hows things, tough guy. yeah, handy!

[WafaaRezzaga]

Thanks soooo much ur amazing !!

[PluhDude]

its a new york thing to shake body parts while talking i should know i live here

[98p6]

I spent my first 35 years in upper Manhattan. Hipstomp has the Bronx, Brooklyn and LI down perfectly, and explains it well. To nygamble: No, it's not put on.

There's more here than just dialect. His *attitude* is the proof that he's legit. It's too hard to fake it. With a New Yorker, what you see is what you've got. There's no time for bullshit. That's why, when he bumps the man in the street, they have no time to stop and discuss manners. They respect each other, and they're too busy.

[eveningprim]

thanks for these- very informative and helpful!

[missogi]

cool stuff! thx!

[nygamble]

u seriously live by this code of new york, or are u just a dood that just talks like this for the camera?

[kelmenow]

Man, you FREAKIN' ROCK!!! Thanks for making these vids - keep 'em comin'!

[GeminiSiege25]

gud moanin' fat bastard, yes i have a gun pointin' at yowu my families uncah joe and uncah velucci ahh cumina ge' yu

[basbla10]

they says yous in boston too

[leylaleylaleyla]

my sister and i call the inverted nod, the "sup". we use it as a verb too, as in, "i saw so and so at the store, i supped her".

[Queegis]

I do the inverted head knod all the time.

I'm from NY, ha.

[sbrainb]

hahahaa.. I'm NYC born and raised too and I do the inverted head nod all the time..

[nhradrgracr109]

yeh im from ny too,just born though I somehow moved down south..........hope to move back

[Drizir]

what he say is so right i do that nod all the time!! and pretend im saying something.

[kingdillon]

lawl nice i dont have time for this shit... lawl rofl

[sexychicc94]

i like how he ended dat but n e wayz i got dis thing i gotta run ill talk 2 u LOL

[sexychicc94]

2:31-2:54 iz funny n VERY tru

[runitsjoolie]

you have a whole lot of personality!

[Nudz]

it is pretty common, even in other countries (here in sweden for instance)

[howag69]

or uk

[honkers09]

Hey buddy im an Engish actor and have to do a new york accent this week for an audition. Your vids really helped..thanks mate!!

[YANKEEH0TTiE]

only Yankee fans talk like this all the mets fans live on long island

[cannonballkid]

not all of them

[YANKEEH0TTiE]

only Yankee fans talk like this all the mets fans live on long island

[sexychicc94]

how u kno how Yankee n Mets fans talk n werr dey liv

[vidzme]

in my schools production of grease kenikie says

'Hey! Where ya' at' how would a new yorker say that?

[vidzme]

'youse' is commonly used in glaswegian accent in scotland

[Topcat1701]

Hey, that was really good, I was getting into them.... I love the differant accents around countries, it's what make us all interesting well some of us lol,

Keep it up buddy...

[mladibosnjaci]

I agree, thats one of the disadvantages of standardization and mass media

[benningaNL]

Thanks for this. Pls more.

[borne4broadway]

thanks so much, I need to learn one for a show and these helped a lot!

[wolfwarriorxc]

more man! more!

[wolfgar45]

yeah!

[SirSmokeal0t]

MMMMMOAR!!!!!