Jersey Accent Guide

New jersey is a big place.

Jersey accent guide. Watch some videos and movies where new jersey accents are available. So you get a broad range of different kinds of accents in new jersey. If it s a south jersey accent you re after. Think of saying the pirate.

So in essence new jersey became an amalgamation of various places in italy. The philly south jersey accent doesn t do that as much the variations in the ah and the aw vowel sound is one of the most distinguishing differences between the northern and southern new. Skip the last letter replace the r at the end of a word with an uh sound and drop the last g in any word. People from jersey will pronounce it dawg people from any other state will pronounce it dog how to say talk people from jersey will pronounce it tawlk people from any other state will pronounce it talk how to use the letter a in a sentence people from jersey will pronounce it with a hard ah sound.

Just follow these pronunciation guidelines on how to have a jersey accent. The r is hard. New jersey is close to new york. So let s work on this oral posture.

The tongue is high. There is a slight southern twang to the accent in most of southern nj which is probably difficult to mimic well. So the lip corners move back and forth a lot. Of course that vocabulary nods to the italian cultural history and migration to america.

With different regions adopting their expat s hometown dialect a universal new jersey accent and vocabulary was created.