Speak with a New York Accent

This lesson is designed to help you produce a convincing New York accent, using key vowel and consonant substitutions when applied to a text.
Drop R-endings
mortuary, part, New York, sort
The Long O grows nasal
most, no, show
The Short A occasionally grows nasal
asks, past bag, bad, sad, gas
But other words with a short A do not change, such as cat, mattress and St. Patrick’s Day.
Most of the vowel and consonant changes listed above are demonstrated in the following monologue:
I will tell you something about myself that few people know.
My mortuary is unrestricted, meaning all walks of life are welcome. There is no denomination of a particular religion. Now, this sort of fence-sitting wouldn’t fly in most parts of the world. People tend to want to be buried by members of their own group. New York being a melting pot, I generally skate past that issue. Yet every once in a while, a client asks what I believe in. They essentially want to find out if I believe in God.
Given what I do for a living, what I wade through, the messes I clean up, I am challenged to believe in anything. That is my secret.
Despite the big show, I can’t believe in it. Today, more than most, I wish I could.
The handbook "Speak with a New York Accent" takes the exotic art of performing with dialects and delivers easy-to-follow lessons (including a longer list of those exceptional short A sounds). Break all barriers to learning the New York accent with this book, and at your next audition the casting directors will be scraping their jaws off the floor.
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[@brennonwaldenmusic1512]

the O's give me trouble but due to your explanation of how to think about producing the sound, I think in time, I'll get it.

[@derekgulec147]

Man you are awesome.You are talented as Kayser Söze.Thanks!

[@thejarellshow7094]

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[@goodvibeztk5369]

This is similar to how us local hawaiians talk... We have what is called "the pidgeon" accent ... Lol

[@user-zu1hi4br4t]

great vid man! keep up the excellent work! I wish you much success! thank you for teaching us too!

[@IvanBorodin]

Thank you. In terms of wishing me success, your success is my success.

[@lscarpeggio]

You're great, man! Thanks, this was very helpful!!!

[@iatesausage]

thanks so much for these videos !

[@theteenenderyt]

You know, a lot of people know that it is tough to use New York Accent. But I don’t know about those New York accents thing, but good job of that.

[@yoputito]

I've really enjoyed your videos; the information in all of them is deep yet fun and the read texts are the best choices. I've noticed that many scandinavian people under 40 speak what I'd call a great English, but they don't sound British or American... It is as if the had already developed a 'native accent' of their own... Do you think I'm right? I'd love to know your opinion about it! Thank you.

[@forrest3221]

me watching this at 12:09am because I'm writing a musical and since I have to lack of actors (well the musical won't be published publicly it's for my family) I have to act as some and one of the characters I'm voicing is supposed to have a new york accent and I can't do a new york accent: okay way is this so sad to me that I'm watching this because of this?

[@manmarks2366]

you are awesome. :-)

[@sweetbrownies5950]

I'm from new York

[@jairurias1179]

Me too

[@crimsonprincess2514]

you aw so good!!! :D

[@drewandjeffers5695]

Excuse me, how do you pronounce millionaire in New York accent?

[@arianagrandefan950]

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