NEW YORK CITY

If you were privileged enough to grow up in New York when and where I did, you'd know the sense of pride we have in how we talk, how we walk and what we do. New York was your race, religion and cultural identity. New York has changed a lot over the years but not New Yorkers. You don't have to be from New York to be a New Yorker, you just have to speak the language.  Fast. Punctuation is for people with too much time on their hands. Take a sentence and turn it into one word. Youknowhatimtalkinabout? I'll be halfway down the block before you get to about. The formal education I received in school would be worthless without the informal one I got in the schoolyard. You're only as smart as you're tough. You're only as good as you're brave. Brains without guts are worthless. New York is a skill that has to learned.

We teach it with a Brooklyn accent.