New Orleans - Southern American Accent Help

Okay, so I've an audition this week, wherein I'm required to demonstrate a New Orleans/ Southern American Accent. I'm doing OKAY, but I keep slipping into a Boston Accent.

I'd appreciate it if someone from New Orleans, or in general region - could get back to me with a video response, reading the speech below. If you aren't from that region, and feel yourself competent - by all means, help me out.

My Monologue is from Aaron Sorkin's - A Few Good Men.

'Listen to me. You had the doctor on the ropes and you lost him, and you know you did. Howard was sweet as hell with his Dawson the protector number. And now you're gonna trash Kendrick to make it look like you're doing your job, when you and I know, and don't pretend you don't, that it doesn't get you one step closer to where you need to be.

Don't put Kendrick on the stand. I have to protect these guys. I can't allow them to look like clowns up there. Stop now. Three years a piece.

Four weeks ago your clients passed on six months. Four weeks ago your clients weren't a daily feature in the Washington Post, and neither were you. You've only got two witnesses and they're both suspected of murder.

You got bullied into this room. By everybody. By her, By Dawson. I mean, I practically dared you. You got bullied into this room, even though not for a second have you believed you could win. You got bullied into this room by the memory of a lawyer who might've stood a chance.

Your boys are going down and I can't stop it anymore.'

Okay, so - Video Responses ASAP please!

TTFN,

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[brno22504]

new orleans accent and southern accent are two different things...peace

[philipjlarkin]

@brno22504 Just going by what the casting director has posted.

Surely, New Orleans is in the South, though?

[TheIPENGUIN]

@brno22504 you're right im from Louisiana and other people in the south talk nothing like us. trust me! im pretty sure Texas is in the south and they talk nothing like us. so IN YOUR FACE!

[AndersonHenderson]

it's definitely true that that those New Orleans "yat" accent (as in "where you at") is -really- unusual compared to virtually every other southern accent. I'm pretty much right next store in southeast Texas, and can never understand what the fuck people in Metairie are talking about. It's much more like Boston or Maine than Tennessee, Alabama, etc.

[mayla2326]

Be sure you learn how to say "New Orleans" like a local as your first step. And our accent depends on where you come from in the city. I'm from Algiers.

[CallofaNightbird1995]

Okay look up Dr.John. He's a singer from New Orleans and has that accent. It's really cool.

[IslenoGutierrez]

@thalouboi The ones that sound similar to the east coast are the local White New Orleans accents in and around the city. The accent is called Yat, which is how I speak. It comes from the old New Orleans accents of the 9th Ward/downtown and the Irish Channel accents, way back when the 9th ward and the Irish channel were predominantly White areas.

[Gigilaughs]

I've lived in a lot of places in the south and the closest accent I've found to a Cajun accent is that of the Guinea man in Gloucester, Virginia. Very close accents. Beautiful to the ear. Both cultures are watermen and they are proud of their heritage.

[myJRproductions]

@philipjlarkin People from NOLA take it as an insult if you compare us to anybody else. There is no other city like ours and nobody talks like us. And somebody from Metairie talks differently than somebody from the Westbank. All the different regions have their own way of talking and own slang words. Speaking in a NOLA accent isn't easy and I am surprised Treme' has done such a good job of representing the city even though its very clique the shit they say.

[louisianaboi08]

Everybody from the south have there own diff accents!!! Though majority is country... But Louisiana we have cajun accents

[presidentfernatt]

How did that audition work out for ya there killer?

[5hape5ter]

New Orleans is in the south, but they're completely different. We don't have twangs like Texas or any of the surrounding states. Its predominately a black location, so we all sort of have a "gangsta" way of talking. Also, the whole cajun thing somehow got mixed in there forever ago, so its pretty much talk whatever. You pretty much just talk like you don't give a fuck about how you sound[as you can tell from a few comments before this one. AS LAZY AS POSSIBLE.