Describing Colors in Spanish

Hola, mis amigos, los maestros. Bienvenidos a una lección. Ya es la hora de aprender los colores. Welcome, my friends, teachers. And so now in this module, we're going to be learning vocabulary about colors. So that'll be helpful when you're talking about things in the classroom, around the school. And you might choose to be using this vocabulary. To communicate with your own students or to teach your students Spanish. So let's start. Vámonos. Here we go. So, always we'll start with kind of our grammar lesson and then just dive into vocabulary and then conversational phrases that we're going to be using. So let's start with some very typical questions that you would be asking. ¿Qué es tu color favorito? Repita conmigo. You're going to always repeat with me dos veces, two times. ¿Qué es tu color favorito? ¿Qué color no le gusta? or ¿Cuál color no le gusta? So you could use several ways. You could say ¿Cuál color te gusta? ¿Cuál color no te gusta? Now here I have le gusta and that would be if we are using the usted form of you. For children we will use the to form and so it would be te gusta. And so the response would be, well, to me, I like this color or I don't like this color. A mí me gusta verde. A mí no me gusta gris. So for me, I really like green. I don't like gray so much. Actually, I do. But you get the idea. So let's dive into some of the vocabulary that we'll talk about. Now, when we're talking about these, another grammar concept is to learn possessives. So a possessive is my, your, his, her. Their, our, and so here's how they are in Spanish. So my is me. And then the to form is tú. Now, the difference is there's not an accent on the tú when it's the possessive. You've heard mi casa es tu casa. That's the tú that they're referring to. And then su refers to his, her, or your, but the plural form of tú, which is usted. So that one would be su. If we're talking about ours, I'd say nuestro or nuestra. Now remember, that has to match the gender of the noun. If I said nuestra casa, because casa is feminine, I make nuestra match it. If I said coche, that's el coche, then I would say nuestro coche has to match the noun and the gender of the noun. And then there is also su. So that's kind of interesting. So, if I said, That was a weird sentence, but you get the idea. Maybe you'll see that as we continue to go on. So let's try some of these. If I said mi libro. Libro. That's my book. Now, to make it plural, I just put an S on it. Remember, if it ends in a vowel, simply put an S. And so, me also has to have an S because they're considered adjectives, possessives, and they have to match the plurality of the noun. So, mis libros, my books, many of my books. Tu zapato or tus zapatos. So, your shoe or your plural, shoes, okay? And then if I said su pantelón, just one pant, well we never say that, we say pants, so sus pantelones, sus pantelones, so his, her, or your, plural, your pants, nuestra clase, esta es nuestra clase, this is our class, and then if I wanted to say his ball or their balls, but they're playing out in the playground, su pelota, Sus pelotas. So that's just a little introduction into possessives. Here, now here's another example. If I wanted to say my glasses. If I'm talking about lenses, reading glasses, we usually say lentes, mis lentes. If they're like sunglasses, we call them gafas, gafas. Glasses, lenses. Mis lentes or mis gafas. Tus gafas. Sus lentes. So the only time that gender is going to change is in the nosotros or the nuestra pronoun, possessive. Nuestras gafas. What would it be if we were saying lenses? Then we'd say nuestros lentes, because it's el lente, okay, and then sus lentes. So those are the possessives that we'll use in conversation. Now let's get to the colors, and you'll see they're in the color. So here we go, amarillo, amarillo, azul, azul, blanco, blanco, gris, gris, marrón, marrón, which is supposed to be like maroon. Naranja, naranja, and that's the same word for the fruit, just like we say in English, the orange, orange, right? Negro, black, rojo, rojo, rosa, rosa, verde, verde. Remember, a V is a very light B, b, b, verde. Violeta, violeta, or purpura. Now, I've also heard, depending on the country, morada, morada, so you'll hear variations potentially, but they'll still understand these colors, plata, plata, and oro, oro. Now, we don't ever intend that you're going to just, like, memorize these, having seen it, heard it, said it just once. But now you've got the list, and then you make flashcards, practice, and that will make it make more sense. Here's some other ones. Now, this time, maybe cover up the words and just look at the picture, right, the color of that vehicle. Rojo, azul, amarillo, gris, naranja, marrón, black, verde. Blanco, violeta, or morada, or púrpura, and grosa. Lots of colors. Now, here would be some conversations. So I would say, ¿De qué color es tu falda? ¿De qué color es tu falda? Of what color is your skirt? ¿De qué color son tus pantalones? ¿De qué color son tus pantalones? ¿De qué color son tus lentes? ¿De qué color son tus lentes? ¿De qué tamaño es tu camisa? ¿De qué tamaño es tu camisa? Tamaño is a size. Now let's say the child comes and they say, I lost my jacket. Well, what color is it? ¿De qué color es la chaqueta? So that would be a very useful conversation. Now, let's say, just to mix things up, let's talk about just saying, I need, right? And then we'll ask them, do you need this thing? ¿Qué necesita? ¿Qué necesita? El libro, el libro, or tu libro. El cepillo, cepillo is a brush. El peine, peine, a comb. Escritorio, escritorio. Almuerzo, almuerzo. La tarea. La tarea, almohada, almohada, maybe for the kindergartners who are still taking naps, they need their pillow. Look at this word in the middle, the H is silent, so it really becomes kind of a slur, that O and the A, almohada. Toalla sanitaria, toalla sanitaria, maybe you've got the high school girl and she's like desperate and you're like, what do you need? La toalla sanitaria, And trabajo de la escuela. Trabajo de la escuela. Necesita el trabajo de la escuela. They've been sick. They need to get the schoolwork. And they might reply, yo necesito, whatever that object might be. You can use possessives, right? Tu tarea, tu almohada, if you want to, and then you can talk about colors. So, here's... Another typical kind of conversation you might have, combining those objects, possessives, and colors. Here we go. I lost my backpack. So in a dialogue, your phrases are going to be the ones in red. If you have a study buddy, then practice going back and forth with these, okay? I lost my backpack. Yo perdí mi mochila. Yo perdí mi mochila. And you say, ¿De qué color es? ¿De qué color es la mochila? ¿Es negra? That's negra, right? That's always helpful. Everybody's backpacks, right? Same color. ¿Y qué más? ¿Y qué más? Like, what more about that backpack or the jacket or the lunch pail, whatever that might be. Tiene el cierre rojo. Tiene el cierre rojo. A zipper. It has a red zipper. Oh, okay. That'll help us identify it. Does it have your name on it? ¿Está escrito tu nombre? ¿Está escrito tu nombre? Yeah, my name is on the inside. That's helpful. Sí, mi nombre está escrito adentro. Sí, mi nombre está escrito adentro. Let's look for it in the lost and found. La buscamos juntos en los objetos perdidos. Otra vez. La buscamos juntos en los objetos perdidos. So let's look for it together. Now, if you're not going to go look for it with them, then you can go send them. And you can say, búscala. Búscala. Look for it in los objetos perdidos. Look for it in lost and found. Búscala. You go look for it. Búscala. Or if you're going to do it together, We're going to go together. La buscamos juntos. We're going to look for it en los objetos perdidos. Okay? O perdidos. Now, more conversation. So what color is your jacket? ¿De qué color es tu chaqueta? ¿De qué color es tu chaqueta? Es azul. Es azul. ¿De qué color son tus pantalones? ¿De qué color son tus pantalones? That should be an A. Sorry about that. ¿Son azules? ¿Son azules? ¿De qué color son tus ojos? ¿De qué color son tus ojos? Son marrones. Marrones or brown, right? Brown. Marrones or they'll say negros if they've got dark eyes, black eyes. ¿Qué es tu color favorito? ¿Qué color es tu? Perdón. ¿Cuál es tu color favorito? And then they can say whatever. Mi color favorito es naranja. Mi color favorito es verde, es rojo, es plata, es de oro, es amarillo, whatever it might be. Okay, so now you've got basic vocabulary for colors and possessives and a couple extra little objects. Here's our little dicho at the end of this little module. La palabra es plata, es silencio, oro. Basically, it's saying, the word is silver, silence is gold. All right, so in conclusion, what did we just do? We learned about possessives, which imply ownership. We're saying it's yours, it's hers, it's ours, it's theirs. And then colors, we're going to help with descriptions about different kinds of objects. So, muy bien hecho. Felicitaciones. Terminaste con este lección. So, well done. You've now finished with this lesson. And so for your homework, what you're going to work on is identifying colors in your house or in your school room that you're going to do this week. Okay, see you next time.