New Yorker here. She sounds crazy native. I’m impressed

Guys, we DO speak like this. You guys probably are talking to people who either just moved to the East Coast or are the first generations to grow up there. I'm from Flatbush Gardens in Brooklyn and I'm telling you, everybody in my neighborhood talks like this. Some accents might be thicker than others but trust me, Amy hits the accent on the money.

Whether you're from NY or not, I always found the NY accent to be the most pleasing.

To all the people complaining: Yes the way she sounds in this video is exaggerated and maybe the majority of New Yorkers don't sound THIS strong, however 1. some people DO sound this strong (one of my NY friends sounds exactly like this) 2. properly learning how to do an accent involves learning the most exaggerated way first (learning every characteristic of the NY accent- the full range, thoroughly), practicing it over and over until one can do it without thinking about it, then they can soften the accent to sound more natural and casual once they become more familiar and comfortable with it. But you have to start at the basics. And this video shows you the basics, it's not meant to address every nuance of every New York speaker.

Trying this in a British accent means you're going to sound Australian whatever you do.

To everyone saying this doesn't sound NY, it DOES. Lol, this accent exists in Staten Island and the southern parts of Brooklyn (Coney Island, Seaside, and etc). This is the original NY accent from the 1900's and forth.

Almost perfect. Being a native New Yorker, it's apparent that she's not a native. However, it's a friggin' 95/100. Excellent job!

I'm Scottish and I'm trying to do this accent but keep on sounding Australian😂

Not only does she have the accent down to a T, but she's got the mannerisms as well. I'm VERY impressed. I've never heard anyone sound so much like a native (except a friend of mine from TX , but that's besides the point). She truly sounds like a native.

omg sounds like Janice

You sound like Estelle from friends

I’m trying out for theatre in high school and the monologue is like a 1940’s New Yorker vibe and every time I try to do a New Yorker accent it turns into a British accent.😂

Most people like Southern accents but I'm one of the few people who loves the New York accent.

She sounds like Naomi from Wolf of Wall Street Which isn't a bad thing

OOOOH my God, it's Chandler Bing lol

Your approach to accents is fantastic,

I'm from texas, this accent in girls is my favorite accent of all. I have to talk to a lot of repair companies all over the country, and when I see NY on the location, I'm like "please sound like her please sound like her", and when she does, it's the highlight of my week lol. It just sounds so cool, it sounds like "shit's about to get done", and it usually does with them

This is a legitimate New York City accent, though it is specific to a group that no longer dominates the outer boroughs of New York the way it once did.The sound Amy Walker produces here is the stereotypical accent that people recognize from TV shows and movies, particularly those produced in the latter part of the last century. I heard it with great regularity growing up in Brooklyn in the mid 1960s through the late 1970s. However, I did not hear it so much in my own East Brooklyn neighborhood, where the majority of the residents were either directly from or descendants of the American deep south and the Caribbean. The dialects and languages that these people spoke were influenced by those origins and, over a couple of generations, had a profound effect on what many might consider to be the classic New York City accent.

So basically you gotta go through a meditation session before talking

Amy, you are amazing.

I’m in the musical Newsies (Morris Delancey), and this video saved my life!

When she said "what do you smell" I instantly said GARBAGE 😂

this honestly helps. I've been making calls to New York for a couple days now for my job. Making sure they partially believe I'm from New York even though I'm in California

This is more of a Staten Island /north jersey accent

She really is super talented. I just sit and listen. The level of detail is amazing.

love the sparkle in your eye and the bandwidth of your energy and vibration

you know who does a good New York accent Marisa Tomei from My Cousin Vinny now that was spot-on

I love Amy so much! She is definitely my favorite KZfaqr. Just a disclaimer though: I was born and raised here in Manhattan. All my friends are New Yorkers and my father is from here as well. I can honestly say I have never heard this accent anywhere.

Lol whenever I hear the New York accent, I just think of Morello and her family from OITNB

Interesting how in general, American accents are going away. It's starting to become a case of southern vs northern. I'm from Maine, and my girlfriend is from Michigan. There are some subtle differences, but not as many as there are between her parents and my grandparents.

lorna morello

nicki minaj sounds like this.

I'm surprised and confused by New Yorkers who don't recognize this accent. It is ultra-real to me. She's fantastic. I grew up in Brooklyn and Queens in the 50s and 60s among Jews and Italian-Americans and I recognize it completely. I recognize the visuals of her mouth moving! I still know lots of people who talk like this. Maybe it is a question of decades and generations.

I love you Amy! I'm from Baltimore City and I've been told (and I just did the New York Times Dialect Test) I have kind of a New York accent or maybe a General Northeastern accent (is there such a thing specifically as a General Northeastern?). The NYT test nailed it exactly and concluded I was either from Yonkers, Newark, or Baltimore.

That really helped me a lot. Thank you! I luv new York accents.

Hi you did amazing! I live I New York, Long Island and this is perfect

so cool. i love how your accents instantly transport you to a different time and place and you fully immerse yourself in a frame of mind. kinda like playing dressup as a kid LOL! awesome talent.

I love the emotion she put behind her words In this accent. I've never been so attracted to an accent before. Made it a little hard to follow 😅 but this video is great! I've always wanted to pretend I had a different accent and apparently New York accent is the easiest one for me to practice!

Holy crap, you have improved so much since I watched your last video. Instant sub!

Great. Like the musical approach to deconstructing the accent. Cadence, rhythm, it's all in there

I feel like the people saying that "no one talks like this! I'm from NY and I would know!" are right to an extent; the accent can be more subtle, but it's definitely THERE. Take this from a foreigner who's been to all boroughs of NY multiple times. You may not even notice it yourself because it's so subtle, but for me, I can tell easily because it's different, and she's nailing it, to an exaggerated extent. It's like how some Indians like me speak with less of an accent, but I can almost always tell if English isn't a first language for an Indian just by the way they say their 'r's.

Amy, I melt with your New York Accent and your mannerisms serious

im a bonafide new yorker and she absolutely nailed it!

This and newsies have been my ways of learning a New York accents

I'm playing Miss Hannigan in Annie right now and that was so helpful! Thank you so much.

LOVE your energy: "maybe like a tree BOLTED to the ground" well done. kudos to you. peace.

you're such an amazing actress. you crack me up!

One artist to another - I'm here because I'm playing various of the adult males in West Side Story. The 2 Polack cops, mostly. You sound like an archetype of the accent (not caricature - the base form that distinguishes it from every other). I think you're very helpful. Thanks. "Vibe" - yes, after the technical, the psychoemotional - the cultural. Love it. Seeing a few comments saying they sound Australian trying this accent. Well, I'm Australian, so this should be interesting...

I’m trying to learn one because I’m in the show Newsies. This video helped so much

so beautiful and decisive

You should do a Boston accent. I think it might be one of my favorites lol

Fantastic work, you have a great ear. Love it!

Awesome tips! I love it!

I am a native New Yorker who now lives in Georgia...although there are many NY dialects, I truly miss home and enjoy watching the King of Queens, Honeymooners, Looney Tunes, and All in the Family. These shows and others remind me of home and there's just no other place like it!

Lmao xD **face palm** New Yorkers are so butthurt! "I'm from NY, we don't sound like that".. Of course you don't, you guys lost your accent with every generation! My grandmother sounds like this, she passed it down and I pushed myself to learn. Disgraceful all of yoos!

Awesome! Really helps with my lines on my script!

I’m from England Manchester to be exact and I’m over here trying to tawlk like her 😂 she’s fantastic I could listen to her awwl day

This is really helping me for my Guys and Dolls adelaide audition xx

A lot of people from NYC usually say "New Yawk" and "tawk instead of talk, but what you're doing is a deep Italian-American, Brooklyn, New Yawk accent. People who grow up around them do kinda speak like them. There is also a blue collar Jewish-American, NYC accent (see Mike Meyers' Yenta charachter on SNL). People from Manhattan usually don't sound like that. It's more of a blue collar accent. People who visit upstate and rural NY will be disappointed if they expect people to speak like that. In rural NY speak more like Southerners (Country accent). African-Americans in NYC sound nothing like that. Puerto Ricans have their own accent. A perfect example is the show "Friends" where the only person with that accent is the Italian-American character named Joey. I watched a show where a lady was breaking down the different accents in NY and she did a great job as she broke down the different accents by borough and ethnicity.

I have lived in NJ & NY my entire life and I've never heard anyone talk like this ever. This is a hollywood NY accent. She sounds like a character from the Sopranos. And the Sopranos is completely fake too.

I reside in NYC and do not find this accent very fascinating as many people from around the world do. Maybe it's because I'm desensitized to hearing it, or just because it sounds too ghetto/urban for my taste. I have a neutral accent btw. Anyways, It's always a pleasure to watch your videos Amy! Keep up the good VIBES!

NYC my entire life... 37 so far. You sound AMAZING! Its giving Barbara Streisand

“A tree bolted to the ground” haha great vid

I love the way she talks

Do you know of any tips for a cuban accent? I would really love to be able to do one because it can be played on so many different levels.

IT SMELLS LIKE PRETZELS. LIKE NEW YORK SIDEWALK CART STYLE GRUBBY PRETZELS THAT ACTUALLY TASTE REALLY GOOD.

I'm a New Yorker, born and raised Long Islander. This is, in no way, a New Yorker accent. Like another comment said, this is a Hollywood New York accent. This isn't even close to a New York accent.

love this video, great job at explaining

You are awesome I absolutely love your accent !

How long do you practice an accent before you start learning another one? It's easy to get all those sounds mixed up. I would love to be able to hear an accent and copy it with no problem. It's not that easy for me unfortunately.

This is brilliant!

Hilarious! I'm from Chicago, and I have to go watch if she did a Chicago accent, lol. Great job! New sub :)

I really want to do this because it will help me with my HARLEY IMPRESSION!!!!! 😃😃

hey hey i friggn love you! (in my new york accent) that was awesome! your brilliant!

Right on some things. I hear Irish/Jewish/old New York Dutch (particularly the "oi" sound for o), not so much Italian, black or hispanic.

new yorker here, i had to laugh when you said first thing you smell is garbage. LMAO i've always said this.

Ack! Volume is so low! I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but not even your exceptional vibes are making my speakers hum loud enough to hear.

I'd love to hear her do a Baltimorean accent😍

Brilliant.

Love this girl she is excellent

The smell that reminds me of visits to NYC would be that of bus exhaust.

2:07 What's up with new yorkers and walls? They seem to go along very well.

I'm Italian, I love New York City and I'm trying to learn its accent but it's so hard coz I've always been thought to use the British standard one.

It's such a sexy accent.

You´re a very talented young lady.

Hey, Im an English teacher from France. I love your videos and tips. But I love you even muaaah ! ;)

Great tips!

This is perfect!

Listen everyone says they don't talk like this I'm from Brooklyn I do now i live in Cali still got it. Anyways it depends were you come from in New York not the city has many accents not all talk like this but if you go to my city Brooklyn in m neighborhood we gotta strong accent like this so yes it depends on what part on New York your at. By the way nicely done on the video.

So much cultural nostalgia. :,)

From Jersey. Wow Amy, you're good.

She likes this love the humor.

I was born In New York thanks moved to Pennsylvania when I was like 2 after hurricane Sandy..

I'm from there. This is PERFECT. I wouldn't know she was born in Seattle. When Amy said Be-CAWS with a real soft S at 1:49, I knew she was an expert. And what totally cracked me up, her and I said "urine" at almost the same exact time. Listen to her, you'll see. If you want to sound totally authentic especially with the inflections, you need to sound like Amy. She sounds more NY than I do, lol!

I love this so much ❤️ love ❤️

That’s a straight up Queens accent. 👏 well done Amy

i find this accent super attractive and i have no idea why

I wish I could master the New Yorker or jersey accent. I'd like to be able to do a great joe Pesci impression

Hey! Excellent tip:)) Thx!

this is just one of my faaavorite accents especially in women it sounds sooo cute aghgahr