Can you pick the colors in Spanish for each English color?

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Spanish Color Flashcards Quiz

by ChicagoGuy88

Created Jun 16, 2012 in Language
Featured Aug 3, 2012
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	jefe_:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 05:15 GMT		5 points
	Could you put the answer choices in alphabetical order? Thanks.

	cardiaccodeman:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 05:30 GMT		11 points
	Well, this is what my friends meant when they told me it'd be more useful to take Spanish in high school rather than French. Sacrebleu!

	refwen:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 05:35 GMT		13 points
	i somehow remember being taught that brown was cafe...but i guess im wrong

	Lprdgecko:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 05:49 GMT		14 points
	In elementary school when we learned these, we sang a song that went something like, "Red is rojo (repeat), rojo is red (repeat), Learning all the colors is fun and colors are for everyone, I'd like to shout and let you know that red is rojo." For every color that popped up I sang through this fairly long song. I had to stop when I realized I'd only gotten through 4 colors with 15 seconds left...

	fastpitchdiva:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 07:51 GMT		2 points
	@refwen café is even kind of the weird way of saying brown, and I´ve always heard it called either that or moreno, but never marrón.

	Zumuj:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 08:45 GMT		2 points
	wow i got seven right even though i've never even studied spanish!

	JAC86:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 09:22 GMT		10 points
	Even though "anaranjado" and "rosado" are correct, thy would be equivalent to saying "orange-ish" and "pink-ish". The actual colors are "naranja" (orange) and "rosa" (pink). =)

	JAC86:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 09:23 GMT		8 points
	it's just a question of grammatical categories: anaranjado / rosado are adjectives, whereas naranja / rosa are nouns

	Upside:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 09:58 GMT		2 points
	@rewfen You're not wrong, there are names for different shades just like in English - brown, coffee, tan etc.

	MrBrainbox:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 10:28 GMT		3 points
	in peru anaranjado is orange and rosado is pink

	Vespinito:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 10:51 GMT		5 points
	Naranja and rosa are adjectives as well as being nouns (just as orange and rose are in English). Anaranjado and rosado are versions that specifically refer to the colours, in order to avoid confusion. I would generally use the base words, but these derivatives are easily recognisable.

	ENZ0:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 12:07 GMT		3 points
	lol I've never been taught any Spanish and still got 9/11. They're very similar to the french colours.

	TheCleverone:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 12:16 GMT		2 points
	@ENZ0 - same here, I got full marks and I only know very limited french, the English word orange originates from the Spanish. I suppose that is why so many words in Esperanto (which I also don't know) are cognates in more than one language (mainly French and Spanish, I think)

	Mikeymonkey711:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 12:52 GMT		3 points
	I say make a sequel to this with harder colors to see how people do

dancastro:

Aug 3rd, 2012 at 12:54 GMT

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To some comments above: it's true that "naranja" and "rosa" are technically the names of the fruit and the flower (nouns), and the correct names of the colors should be "anaranjado/a" and "rosado/a" (adjectives). But it's common to use naranja and rosa as adjectives also (law of lesser effort? anaranjado is five syllabes long, naranja only three). And as usual in language, custom prevails. There's no reason why the Government House in Argentina is "Casa Rosada" while the cartoon is "Pantera Rosa". However, if you say "Casa Rosa" and "Pantera Rosada" you would be understood but everybody would notice that you aren't a native speaker.

	BanjoZebra:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 13:20 GMT		2 points
	Congratulations on your first publish!

	ChicagoGuy88:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 13:28 GMT		3 points
	^ Thanks! And congratulations on your 34th publish!

	chriskotx:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 14:43 GMT		3 points
	Pardo and café can mean brown as well as does marrón.

	Mimbleton:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 15:11 GMT		1 point
	!Ay Carnauba!

	iLuvPotato:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 15:19 GMT		1 point
	Got all of them! Even if you know colors in French and German and not as much Spanish it helps with this quiz.

	Dralcoffin:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 15:21 GMT		1 point
	It helps to find this quiz the same week I manage to get hooked on a Spanish television show (Los hombres de Paco).

	lexiedrew:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 15:51 GMT		1 point
	i liked this because it was easy haha c:

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	superlolzx:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 17:58 GMT		2 points
	Wouldn't have correctly guessed all 11 if not for my good friends Dora and Boots. We did it, we did it, we did it, YAY!

	samcash13593:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 19:00 GMT		2 points
	^ I'm glad I'm not the only person who watches Dora for Spanish. Gracias Sen~or Tucan. Swiper no swiping!

	StJimmyRocks92:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 20:30 GMT		1 point
	Weird. In high school, we learned café for brown, and then in college it was moreno, and now it's maròn.

	ChicagoGuy88:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 20:57 GMT		0 points
	^It says Marron up there only because Sporcle must've changed it. It used to say Cafe...

	Chocolatl:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 21:00 GMT		2 points
	Marron as a noun means chestnut, so marron would be chestnut brown.

	piehole4ever:	Aug 3rd, 2012 at 23:49 GMT		2 points
	Marron. I've never heard of that. I will add it to my vocab.

	dancastro:	Aug 4th, 2012 at 00:26 GMT		2 points
	At least in Argentina, practically the only word for brown is marrón. Really "marron" is a French word meaning chestnut (both the fruit and the color), so the Real Academia Española disapproved its use (being a foreign word) and recommended "castaño" for the color ("castaña" is the proper Spanish word for 'chestnut' [fruit]). But, as it often happens when a foreign word becomes widely used, the Academia finally acknowledged its defeat and included "marrón" in the official Dictionary of Spanish in 1970.

	marceloOrigoni:	Aug 5th, 2012 at 00:25 GMT		1 point
	We could debate for hours if it's Anarajando/rosado or Naranja/Rosa. We could also discuss if its Morado or Púrpura (And I could add Colorado instead of Rojo). The quiz it's obviously based in Spanish spoken/written in Spain, rather than Latin America. The same thing happens between American and British English (not to talk about Australian). Great quiz!

	paperwalls:	Aug 6th, 2012 at 13:30 GMT		3 points
	There's no use in arguing which is the correct way of saying a color. There are just different ways of saying them, it just depends on the country you're from or what kind of spanish you were taught.

	Door:	May 16th, 2013 at 15:27 GMT		1 point
	Well, in Panama is not common to say -pardo- or -marrón or -café-, but -chocolate- for brown. It's just a matter of preference. As @Upside said, "there are names for different shades just like in English." @marceloOrigoni: I'd say it's a mixture of LA Spanish vs. Spanish from Spain. In Panama we certainly use -anaranjado- and -rosado-.