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  • This accent is brooklyn jewish, in general NY'ERs dont drag Hs and dont say hoit for height. New York has so many accents .

  • "t" is not voiced i think.

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  • YOU ARE SO AMAZING LIKE THE TIME I WENT TO THE GROCERY STORE SOO GOOD EXPERIENCEOOO!!!

    OHSASHAFIERCE

    HOTTESTGIRLINTHEWORLD

  • this is so wrong!!!!!! i live in the suburbs of NYC and they deffinatly dont sound like thus. maybe brooklyn but not NYC

  • whats the difference between nyc accent and boston?

  • I think languages are fascinating. I've been learning English for which seems like forever, and I really like trying different accents. I was trained in RP, but I love all kinds of dialects and accents. I think it's a good exercise. So, any New Yorkers out there, please, go easy on this lady. I know it's probably not very accurate, but that is the only chance for people like me, who'll never get to pick up the dialect by simply being in NY, to maybe get to know it a little bit.

  • @anushcuh86 Still, I think the claim that /t/ is voiced is much worse than her allegedly phoney dialect, in the end, she is supposed to be an expert. Back to topic, take into consideration she's doing the 'standard' NY. I mean, how many people speak standard really? Don't be so harsh ;)

  • t is voiceless; she shouldn't go around giving wrong information

  • very Aussie!!

  • I grew up in NY and im currently living in the south. you sound like every other asshole down here trying to copy me and ur way off!

  • That doesn't sound Long island at all :(

    (I'm a Long Islander)

  • Another word would be "her" It becomes almost huh, ovah there. The "r" is not really heard but kind of rolls into an "h" that's not even in the word. The one aspect I find about the East Coast is that the major cities so close to each other have very different patterns. Bostonians speak very differently than New Yorkers.

  • Coffee, becomes caw(short) fee, like beginning three letters of the word are pronouced like the word "bought", like the word Park, as if (paw)k. as in a dog's paw. I agree with other poster, NY'ers would'nt say "hoit" for height, but height(teh). It's there, but you have to listen to it. Another example is the word moron. (MORE-ON) becomes Mooor-on.

  • I lived in Manhattan for twenty years. The native NY'ers knew I wasn't born there, but a NY accent sounds rather blue-collar low class to me. I do notice the "t" on the end of words seem to be slightly pronounced where it's noticeable. The word "plight" sounds as if the speaker is saying the word "tiger", as in plight(te). Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Rep. Gary Ackerman are often heard putting this (teh) when I listen to their well speeches on C-Span House TV.

  • Over-educated (Manhattan/Neo-Brooklyn) hipsters ruined the NY accent...

    They all have a condescending, lispy "Valley Girl" accent that make sentences sound like questions.

  • Sorry, but NOBODY in New York will EVER pronounce "height" as "hoit". Just saying.

  • @VoxImploratio113 I'm with you - NOBODY would!!

  • ohh hell no. i was born and raised on long island and i go to nyc almost every other week and we dont sound that retarded when we talk.

  • Hell no, do we really need to have more people sound ignorant !

  • Shut up...

  • I...don't sound like that

  • I cant understand the senceces.

  • the only borough that doesnt have an accent in manhatan evry other one does... i personally dont think i have an accent but when i go out of state or to another place they automatically tell me i do. long island and brooklyn have simmilar accents where as queens and bronx have different ones. her accent sounds forced and annoying we don't all talk like that -_-

  • I think shes got it! I think shes got it! "the life of the wife was ended by the knife"

  • this is hard to do and i'm in new york already it sounds really hard

  • Damn, "right" is a tricky one. It's such a jump from your previous example, "height".

  • She is trying to learn people an accent and this is what you have to say about it? Man, you guys are really heartless.

  • @sparmonic...listen dude, I am not trying to sound live anyone by myself. All I was saying in my initial comment to "give her a break" is that she (whoever she is) is sharing her perception of NY accent and has no harm. You are so full of insults and hostility, must be hangover from a previous night. As to suriving, you must be living in a neigbourhood then I am glad I dont live. Plus, you also are not probably fluent in 5 other languages. So take it easy!

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  • In her natural voice, she sounds like a native New Yorker who's trying not to speak like a New Yorker.

  • i've lived in new york all my life and i dont sound anything like this.

  • She sounds like Snooki from the Jersey Shore

  • @Najbrugge LOL more like The Real house Wives of New Jersey. New England states people all probably talk like that b/c of their high population of Italians. (Mobsters!!!)

  • wtf is this? I am a native Long Islander and i swear i have never heard and/or speaken anything like that in my whole life. O.o

  • long island is not new york city.

  • this lady needs to stop making videos im from ny and no one talks like that. shes trying to sound italian and its not working.

  • a new york accent is john gotti ordering hits,

  • I'm a new yorker. From brooklyn. And most of what she is saying is correct but she does more of an 'Italian New Yorker. I being from brooklyn and being african american have a slightly different way of speaking.

  • For a second I thought she was going to say "Say mice like Mass" haahhaha

  • ha ha all the people from the Jersey Shore talk like this. They aren't even from Jersey. They are from NYC and Statin Island

  • This sounds more like the old Brooklyn accent which is dying out. The "Bowery Boys" films from the '30's & '40's talk like this. The young people today don't say "toidy tiod street" for 33 st. anymore, but they still do say "fawwt fluoo" for 4th floor

  • she sounds like a fucking Australian

  • she sounds like shes taking the piss out of austrailen :S

  • Wow so this is how people who are not natives of new York think I sound like LOL I don't think I sound like that

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  • @Revandell I think you need to re-read your phonology books because the 's' and 't' can be both voiceless and voiced consonants. Because surely you know what voiced means. All voiced consonants are vibrated in our throats. For example voiceless 's' as in scissors' voiced 's' in English is the Z. Only when 't' is voiced when paired with 'h'. Otherwise, it can also be voiceless, as in this word 'tea'.

  • @Sonnelicht87 How can we discuss phonology, when you say 's' and 't' and you refer to letters, and not to sounds?:) 'th' - these are just letters, not sounds; there is no such thing as "/t/ paired with /h/", as you say. You mistake letters with their sound equivalents. We have this 'th' and it is can be both voiceless or voiced dental fricative, but never can you say that is is "/t/ paired with /h/" because you are wrong :)

  • @Sonnelicht87 Sorry, but there's no discussion about that. If you're not sure, you can refer to English IPA and check /s/ and /t/ :)

  • I've lived in new York my whole life and that is not how anyone i know talks lol

  • You don't know what you're talking about. Get a job.

  • SHE SOUNDS LIKE AN 80 YEAR OLD JEWISH WOMAN FROM BROOKLYN... HAHA

  • @aricakex i could not agree with you more.

  • @aricakex she is 80 lol

  • @aricakex omg yes lol

  • Im From Newyork and I dont not say "the flight of the kite was quite a site" like "The floght of the kyte was quoite the sawte" its a bit of an exaggeration how she says it

  • i hate it im sorry i just hate it thats not how they talk trust me im from new york talk right or you going to be jumped

  • hi, excellent video and class, I hope so much more videos, i ve watched many of yours...

  • What are you talking about? Both /s/ and /t/ are voiceless consonants, /s/ is a fricative and /t/ is plosive... Do not say /ti:/ when referring to the sound, because it is a letter and the sound is /t/. It seems like you have no basic knowledge of phonology.

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  • So it's:

    The Ploit Of The Coit Was Quoit A Soit?

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  • boring!

  • Jewish, Mulsims = terrorist junk.

  • all of you who are saying crap about her and her video at least she has something to give to people some people do talk like this and some don't some want to some don't if you don't want to hear it get the fuck off the Paige little brats cant appreciate crap i wtf would you even be doing watching if you don't want to hear you knew what it was gonna sound like when you typed in new york accent what you aspect little dumbASes

  • repeat after me: The loife of the woife was ended by the knoife

    (gets shot)

  • Ah, this seems to be what I'm looking foir...is this Long Island??

    Cheers.

  • give it up aint guna work call up a few SI teens we'll teach yah

  • Lame. Give it up honey.

  • The /t/ sound is actually voiceless; /d/ is voiced.

  • Were did she get this from??

  • What is hoight? I dont talk like that, and neither does any other New Yorker!

  • The T sound is actually a voiceless plosive in word-final positions, even in my hometown of bklyn, and becomes voiced usually intervocalically, as in computer, water, better, total, Internet (here it seems to disappear altogether), , . and perhaps at word junctions in discourse, as in right on, what a night, wait a minute.

  • It's a generalization, of course no one speaks that way, but these are general characteristics.

  • Thankyou!!! This really helped me for Adelaide in Guys and Dolls!! Can now do a vaaguuely ok new york accent :)

  • @EvenuallyBidden

    Just don't do that in NY. If you want to keep your life.

  • @TastyPepperoniPizza Haha i was gonna say the same.

  • i thought write was spelt....write......not wright....oooohhh....right

  • /t/ is not a voiced consonant....

    also yes, she sounds like a cross between my brooklyn jewish relatives and my long island relatives.

  • Gotta love the stares she makes at the end.

  • guys, this is probably for actors.... who'd change their accent just to visit somewhere?

  • I grew up in manhattan and have lived in the city my whole life. I assure you, not only do I not talk like this, but this lady sounds fake to my ears.

  • This is not how we talk in new york

  • that aint no new york accent sounds like some jewish shit

  • hahah EE-LOYYY-ZA! sounds a little bit cockney :D 

  • Hoight?

    wtf.

    no.

  • Get Bent!

  • No. No, sorry. We don't talk like this, not even on Long Island.

  • The t is a voiceless consonant. Check your information.

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  • Some of these examples sound more typical of Long Island accents than City accents.

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  • ummm....hells no! sounds more like boston. come to brooklyn if ya wanna learn a real accent!

  • wow not new york

  • this is fucking stupid. We do not sound like that. People that are not from NY, needs to stop trying to act like they know the NY accent.

    This sounds like the Italian American accent. There is a difference between Italian American Accent and NY Accent

  • uuuhhh. no. O_O 

  • lol. im from bronx nd this is juss too funny. this is a waste of time. if yu talk lik this were im from ppl will look at yu lik yu crazy.lol

  • Mice? No. Heist? No. This woman? NO.

  • sounds long island and jewish

    

  • thanks for your help! really appreciate it

  • @jlaa24 if you ever went to coney island and the bronx and long island.. this is how they talk. soooo. don't try to image stuff man. cause I'm from brooklyn and I talk like this.

  • haha that's how I talk (^_^) tried shaking it off. but it's useless man. so now i'm just proud of it.

  • Why would anyone not from NY would want to sound like a New Yorker?

    Ok, that might happen when someone is an actor or do voice-overs.

    For the rest of us, it's interesting but not very useful.

  • I just moved to LI. Sorry, but you all talk like this ]:

    ...Only if you're italian, though.

  • @MjaTheNoob i'm not italian and I have a brooklyn accent.. you mean italians have a new york accent?

  • @SuperNumber19

    no, most of the time, people with li accents have an italian background.

  • @MjaTheNoob lol they sure do.. i'm from brooklyn they do and we have a more layed back slower accent talk than them. unlike the bronx where they speak like long islanders but 200 miles an hour.. and i'm not italian.. I have a new york accent. I can't shake off to be honest.. so I just threw in the towel.

  • umm? do you enjoy annoying people? you do this with my english accent too, you're a p**S taker, you aint no expert love... just move to australia

  • New Yorkers talk like this? It's very... Australian.

  • I'm an Italian American. This is what ITALIAN AMERICAN's sound like. Not NEW YORKERS. This is a waste of time. Come visit one of the Italian neighborhoods and you will start speaking "poifect" Italianese.

  • @TheRagalshnagalable lmfao i'm not italian.. you mean italians sound like new yawkas.. come down to brooklyn ''faw dee poifect hamboiga pally''

  • @SuperNumber19 wut.

  • she sounds more australian than new-york(-ian(?)) XD

  • This is awful.

  • Prac prac practice, how do you expect to teach us if you cant even pronunce your words?

  • I'm a Italian-American from NYC, and we Italian-Americans are known the best for speaking this way. There is only one way to learn; live in NYC. By communicating with people there, you'll automatically start speaking that way - no need to practice.

  • this is NOT a ny accent.

  • i like how people try to sound like us new yorkers its funny

    u wana here some real NY accents come over to brooklyn in my neighborhood

  • she is beautiful

  • f-f-f-failure

  • @jlaa24 hahaha me either

  • @LaughLots1014 neither*

  • As a new yorker I pronounce height as h-ight

    No we don't pronounce a like "au/aw" either. Mall --> Maul

    Ok maybe not all of us but I have yet to see a single new yorker speak this way.

  • I dont talk like that..

  • yo im from new york and i've lived in FLA for a minute but i kno0o0o0ow that the accent from the NY doesnt sound like that she sounds like a suburban person trying to hard to fit in..

  • She sounds like Sarah Silverman when she does the accent.

  • this is jewish 101

  • Dialects, not accents. Learn the difference.

  • @jlaa24 i know i dont know why everyone automatically think we talk like those old mobster italians

  • yea alot of the accent comes from orthodox jews like "hey you brought the knishes!"

  • close, but it's actually

    lawn-guylin

  • I lived most me life in Chicago 'n hated the accents there everyday. I moved out to California and they're free from accents. I think accents from New Yawkers sound better than Chicagoans.

  • I want to move to NY I live in Holland

  • Shes teaching everyone how to talk like a jew from ny

  • @dukey56 I hate it when people make a generalization of New York accents. There is a distinct difference between the New York accents of Italians, Jews, and Irish.

  • @dukey56 this made my day

  • But a T sound isn't voiced... "heist" "height" Both end with unvoiced consonants.

  • vowels,alwite mate london

  • how does she say bukkake

  • @Jimmy1tooth she says it in a japanese accent

  • I think shes going for NY jew. But not getting it.  Most people there dont have much of an accent. Try jersey or the some dope from the ghetto. Shed be funny tryna talk like a thug from brooklyn.

  • ok, the kite sentence makes no sense either. She just changed the word "sight" but said that in words like right, light, and fight, its not changed. they all have the same "ght" thing after the long "I". This is the only video I've found that's not making any sense so far.

  • I'm don't understand. Height has a silent G before the T, and so does Right, but yet Height is changed and Right isn't. N e body kno why? I'm tryin 2 learn this for a musical, and I need some help.

  • they speak like that in jersey city!

  • lmfao, i thought you said jersey shore XD

  • "T" is NOT voiced. It is classified as a voiceless alveolar plosive; its voiced pair is "D."

  • do people really speak like this in new york?

  • @smokenfly514 i do. it's not much of an accent if you lived in nyc your whole life.. since everyone talks like that.. :p

  • @smokenfly514

    not so much anymore, people that are in the city nowadays are often in & out and arent around long enough to soak in the dialect.

    however, if you walk around a construction site ect. you might here some 'kwafe's' & some 'bring it over 'heer'

    just the working middle class keep the dialect alive:)

    & jersey scum

  • LOL, no, well, not me

  • The NY accent is going extinct in NYC now that the city and Brooklyn are being taken over by hipster-yuppie transplant inbreds from the burbs who talk through their nose.

    Nowadays if you wanna hear a real NY accent you've gotta go to Long Island, NJ, etc.

  • @laraza99 i live in brooklyn and i talk like this dunno what ya talking bout but i did notice like back in the 1940s it was thicker lol.

  • This is helpful to people who need an accent for a production. Even if you don't talk like that normally a lot of acting requires accents.

  • Dodgers are from brooklyn

    lol

    idiot

  • everyone who takes this seriously has proved themselves not only as a retard but also someone who takes themselves way to serously . This is dry humour. New Yorkers have no sense of humour, obviously.

  • Please take this off.

    This is not how we talk.

  • @popups46okay I lol at the fact that this fuckin vid is still on YT.

  • lol professional speaker? apparently you're not good enough because no one sounds like that here. try boston.

  • this girl reminds me of my really annoying grandma.

  • this is so not the new yorker accent lol more like maine or something

  • "t" is considered voiced????

    It may be aspirated but the "t" sound is voiceless as compared to the "d" sound which is voiced.

    On "t" the vocal chords do not vibrate. Thus voiceless.

    on "d" the vocal chords do vibrate. Therefore voiced

    This New York dialect is wayyyy off if you wish to be convincing for any role in a play, film/tv, or voiceover.

  • "And some of these you might want to write down..."

    BAHAHAHA! We all just started cracking up when we heard her say that!

  • hoit? oh my god please stop... this isn't New York... this is Cockney!

  • I am a foreigner but her NY accent sounds strange for me. I have a friend from NY, he doesn't speak like this

  • Is this a joke? Its not a new york accent...

  • wow we do not sound like this at alll!!!!!!!!!

  • :) Yes you do

  • LMAO yeahoookkkkkkk!!!!!!

  • My God. I have been doing this wrong for YEARS.

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  • you're right, she said "tok" no New yorker says that, we say TAWK.!

  • i agree, even though i'm english haha new york accent say tawk haha i love new york accent its number 1 in my list

  • And I mean "crack up" as in "go mad" not "laugh out loud".

  • this woman sounds like an idiot...and who is she jackie mason...no one talks like that here..