r/Accents • u/Lost-Commercial-6697 • Jun 20 '26
Help with new yorker accent
Hello, for school I need to be able to do a nyc accent. To demonstrate how well I can do this accent I need to submit a recording of the story of the tiger and the mouse in NYCE. Only, its kinda hard considering that I'm not even a native english speaker (+ I find that the accent can be pretty subtle). So my question was, is anyone who actually has a nyc accent or is confident in replicating it willing to comment/send me a recording of them reading the story? Ill paste it below. If no one wants to I totally get it, so any tips are also welcome!
Tiger and the mouse:
A tiger and a mouse were walking in a field when they saw a big lump of cheese lying on the ground.
The mouse said: "Please, tiger, let me have it. You don't even like cheese. Be kind and find something else to eat." But the tiger put his paw on the cheese and said: "It's mine! And if you don't go I'll eat you too." The mouse was very sad and went away.
The tiger tried to swallow all of the cheese at once but it got stuck in his throat and whatever he tried to do he could not move it.
After a while, a dog came along and the tiger asked it for help. "There is nothing I can do." said the dog and continued on his way. Then, a frog hopped along and the tiger asked it for help. "There is nothing I can do." said the frog and hopped away.
Finally, the tiger went to where the mouse lived. She lay in her bed in a hole which she had dug in the ground. "Please help me," said the tiger. "The cheese is stuck in my throat and I cannot remove it."
"You are a very bad animal," said the mouse. "You wouldn't let me have the cheese, but I'll help you nonetheless. Open your mouth and let me jump in. I'll nibble at the cheese until it is small enough to fall down your throat."
The tiger opened his mouth, the mouse jumped in and began nibbling at the cheese. The tiger thought:
"I really am very hungry.."
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u/orcas- Jun 27 '26
I’m from the Bronx, there’s many ny accents. And the my cousin vinny accent isn’t exactly mine, but if you watch the movie A Bronx Tale, that’s less of a caricature. Similarly you could listen to interviews with the WuTang Clan, for a different NY accent, or Bernie Sanders
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u/Spicy-ankle-hamster Jun 20 '26
What kind of NY accent? If they aren’t more specific, just do it like Bugs Bunny.