No, he was not. His distinctive accent is the product of being born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Senator Sanders lived in Chicago while he attended college at the University of Chicago. He did not move to Vermont till 1968.
Some examples of words in Brooklyn accents are worlds like the word three. In a Brooklyn accent, "three" is pronounced "tree." Coffee is another word that can be done in a Brooklyn accent. It can be pronounced "cawfee" instead.
No not anymore :(
her mother has a Minnesota accent, and her father has a brooklyn accent, so she is kinda a mix of the two, moreso the Minnesota accent, mixed with american.
Flatbush, Brooklyn , where he also acquired his accent .
Of course! Everybody has an accent. Many members of my Quaker meeting in Swarthmoor, Cumbria, England, UK, have the accent of the Furness district. I have found that Quakers in Bristol, UK, speak with a Bristol accent, those in Dublin, Eire have a Dublin accent and those in Manchester, UK, have a Manchester accent. I expect Brooklyn Quakers have a Brooklyn, USA accent and Peoria Quakers have the accent of central Illinois, USA!
Italian guy + Brooklyn accent = perfect. It's just gorgeous to girls :) but in all fairness everyone has their own opinions... but as a whole, yes!
Brooklyn would not change. It would be the same thing in Spanish since it is a place. To help a Spanish-speaker with the pronunciation, you could transliterate it to: 'bruclin' (with an accent over the 'u').
Leah Remini from King of Queens? or maybe Rosie Perez?
Yes, as one might expect from geography, it is similar to the Boston accent, but with some differences. Like the Boston accent, it is non-rhotic (the 'r' in many words is almost silent). Unlike the Boston accent, there is (sometimes) an emphasis on the 'aw' sound ("Prawvidence"). When people from RI travel to Maine, their accent is perceived to be closer to that of Brooklyn or New Jersey. Of course, when they travel south or west of Pennsylvania, it's just perceived as "Yankee".
Children are very sensitive to the language and accents they are exposed to at a young age. If a child spends a lot of time with family members or in a community where a New Jersey accent is common, they may pick up that accent naturally as they learn to speak.
A "dialect" is simply the form of a language spoken in a certain place. For example, the Southern dialect of English (Howdy, y'all) or the Brooklyn dialect (Fugghedaboutit!). Can be compared to accent, although an accent is explicitly the result of learning multiple languages and a dialect is simply the way everyone around speaks.