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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 25 of 31 19 May 2010 at 7:33am | IP Logged |
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French is green, Chinese is red (of course), Dutch is orange (of course), and Spanish is also orange. Russian is pure white like a fresh Siberian snowfall. Edited by Levi on 19 May 2010 at 7:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| nescafe Senior Member Japan Joined 5410 days ago 137 posts - 227 votes | Message 26 of 31 19 May 2010 at 10:30am | IP Logged |
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If asked I find that colours are associated with languages, but I can explain why I do so.
Japanese: Red, as the colour of the Sun as in Japanese national flag, English: Green, I do not know why, but I associate green with the notion of the world, and English is a world language ... Mandarin: Yellow, for the colour of the Forbidden city, the Yellow river Huanghe 黄河, a Chinese mythical deity Yellow emperor Huangdi 黄帝, unforgetable desert like huge Chinese landscapes cover with a vague yellow ... Russian: Red, for communism? French; White, Paris is a white city German: Green, for German forests, Arabic: Yellow, the colour of deserts, I associate colours with musical keys, this is more strange to me. A: Red, my mind is filled with red when listening to Mendelssohn's Italia symphony. B: Black, groomy C: Yellow, gorgeous colour... D: Blue, demonish E, White, E# sounds more brightly F, none, or gray? sounds as if something off, strange feeling, G, green, I do not know why... Edited by nescafe on 19 May 2010 at 10:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 27 of 31 20 May 2010 at 12:26pm | IP Logged |
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nescafe, your first list sound like tangible associations but the second sounds like music-colour synaesthesia to me. Have you ever taken the synaesthesia battery? Here is a link: http://www.synesthete.org/
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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6660 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 28 of 31 16 April 2011 at 10:41pm | IP Logged |
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The interesting thing here is how much agreement there is between and among posters.
English is red, and French has always been blue for me. Spanish is orange. Italian is olive green. German is a deep apricot colour. Portuguese is bright green. Russian and the other Slavic languages are a dark orange. Korean is a deep pink. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6051 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 29 of 31 17 April 2011 at 7:05am | IP Logged |
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Chinese is mostly red, black, white, with some blue. It's not a very pretty language to see.
Spanish has a lot of blues "ah" sounds. iera sounds are a beautiful purplish violet flowing from white. Tagalog is the most beautiful to see. Tons of vivid colors, blues, purples, strong blacks. I don't normally see English when I speak, so I don't really have a good idea on the color of it. I have sound -> letter/color music -> color and emotion - > color synesthesia Edited by irrationale on 17 April 2011 at 7:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4300 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 30 of 31 25 February 2013 at 5:21am | IP Logged |
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Interesting, I find my system of colouring of numbers is fairly rainbow-like: 1 = white, 2 = red, 3 = orange, 4 = green, 5 = yellow, 6 = sky blue, 7 = pink-purple, 8 = dark blue, 9 = dark brown, 0 = transparent (water-like). As with languages, maybe because I haven't learned a lot of languages, I don't have a system yet. Perhaps the colouring system can help solve the problem of confusion regarding false friends and all that.
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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4652 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 31 of 31 25 February 2013 at 11:43am | IP Logged |
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Wow, that is an interesting topic. I think most people (ie. without synesthesia) would associate languages with the colors that appear on the flag or are especially important in the culture.
If I were to say what color I associate with Arabic, it'd be green, since it's on 90% of Arabic-speaking countries' flags and it's the color of the UAE flag. For example, for China the color would be either red (the color of the flag) or imperial yellow. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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