Lesson 1.2.1 · Los Colores
🎨 Colors
Color words are gendered in Spanish — they agree with the noun. Most end in -o/-a (rojo/roja), but some are invariable (azul, verde). Learn these and you can describe almost anything in Colombia, from a ruana to a guacamaya.
Sub-lessons
Break this lesson into focused chunks. Each sub-lesson has its own Memory Lab — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaved review, and shadowing — scoped to just those words.
Primary & secondary
The everyday palette. Note that 'rosado' is preferred over 'rosa' in Colombia.
red
blue
yellow
green
orange
purple
pink
Example sentences
Hoy estoy rojo.
Today I feel red.
Mi amigo es muy azul.
My friend is very blue.
La comida está amarillo.
The food is yellow.
Mini-diálogo
Mi amigo es muy rojo.
My friend is very red.
La comida está azul.
The food is blue.
Neutrals & extras
Black, white, brown — plus a few Colombians use constantly.
black
white
gray
brown
Marrón works too, but café is more common.
gold
silver
Example sentences
Hoy estoy negro.
Today I feel black.
Mi amigo es muy blanco.
My friend is very white.
La comida está gris.
The food is gray.
Mini-diálogo
Mi amigo es muy negro.
My friend is very black.
La comida está blanco.
The food is white.
Memory lab
Five research-backed techniques — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaving, and production — applied to this lesson's vocabulary. Your progress trains a spaced-repetition schedule under the hood.
Force the answer from memory before peeking. The struggle is the workout — that's the testing effect.
Recall from English
gray
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
brown
orange
green
purple
rojo
black
Fill the blank
Hoy estoy _____.
Today I feel black.
Fill the blank
Mi amigo es muy _____.
My friend is very white.
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