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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Learn colours in Chinese and Malay, alphabetically with memory aids

Memrise helps you to remember, recording your own memory aids.




The Malay words are easiest

The Chinese words add the picture symbol and spoken word for colour to most colours except orange and pink.
If you want to learn or draw the colours, the easiest to recognize are white and another.
Go to Google translate to hear the sounds.


Here are the flag colours
red
white
yellow
color
star

Here are the colours in alphabetical order

black
blue
green

orange
pink

purple
red
white
yellow

In Malay, red as in the station in Singapore in Malay bukit merah, red hill, has the letters re in red and er in merah.
White has the letters h add i and so does Putih. A dead white body going putrid is putih.
Warna is a warm colour, means colour, or think of it as warning colours, like the red yellow and green of traffic lights. Warna, colour.

Oren sounds like orange.

Merah jamu is red jumbled up with whites and reds and pinks to make pink.

But shorter. Malay is an economical language.

Yellow has the letter g, growing cunningly hidden underground. kuning. But in spring it is coming up.

Bing tang is a star on the flag. You will remember all the stars on the flags if you have been to the USA or Malaysia (or China or Singapore). Bintang, Malay language, just think of the Malay language.

Hitam, hit them with the black flag. The black flag was used by pirates. It is used in racing to summon racing cars to the pit for a pit stop. The black flag is the opposite of the white surrender flag and means we will fight on for many groups.

On a brighter note, hit them with the smart black suit, and hiring the black suit hits your pocket.

Biram - I am so blue, no beer nor wine in Malaysia, a dry country, beer makes me blue as I am not a beer drinker but am a wine drinker.

The Malay word for purple, ungu, has the letter u in the English and the rich word for purple, the old royal colour, is ungu with the letter u and g as in king.

If you want to record your own memory aids of mine use Memrise, a free language learning ad which uses and records your memory aids which you can share.


Chinese Colours
Most of the Chinese words for colours have the symbol for solour. It looks like say, phonetically, by sound.

Useful Websites
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_flags


English

Malay

merah
putih
kuning
warna
bintang


hitam
biru
hijau

oren
merah jambu

ungu
merah
putih
kuning
Chinese (Simplified)

红色
白色
黄色
颜色
星


黑色
蓝色
绿色

橙子
粉

紫色
红色
白色
黄色
Hóngsè
báisè
huángsè
yánsè
xīng


hēisè
lán sè
lǜsè

chéngzi
fěn

zǐsè
hóngsè
báisè
huángsè

Useful Websites
LANGUAGES
google translate
duolingo
memrise
https://www.memrise.com/

TRAVEL
Singapore Airlines
About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages.

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