Italian translation from the menu of Italian Restaurant 2 Veneti in London

Veneti means Venetian. so 2 Veneti is two Venetians, the owners.

Italian - English

bianco - white

con - with

del - of the

e - and

erbe - herb

fegato - liver

giorno - day

insalata - salad

limone - lemon

nero - black

pere - pear

pesce - fish

pollo - chicken

salmone - salmon

salsa - sauce

verdure - vegetables

vitello - veal

Zuppa - soup

English - Italian

and - e

black - nero

chicken - pollo

day - giorno

fish - pesce

herb - erbe

lemon - limone

liver - fegato

of the - del

pear - pere

salad - insalata

salmon - salmone

sauce - salsa

soup - zuppa

veal - vitello

vegetables - verdure

white - bianco

with - con

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2 Veneti

10 Wigmore Street

London W1U 2RD

Useful Websites

https://www.2veneti.com/

https://www.2veneti.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MENU

duolingo.com

https://www.duolingo.com/courses/it

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cicchetti

Handy Italian words for speaking at dinner in restaurants, and reading menus

Flag of Italy.

The three colours of the Italian flag, green white and orange, are used in a starter in restaurants, called the tricolore meaning the three colours. Green could be vegeble or salad. White could be cheese. Red could be tomato.

 Italian - English

a noi non piace

anatra - duck

bianco - white

carote - carrots

dieta - diet

dopo - after

e - and

ecco - see / look / here you are (giving or showing something)

felici - happy

frutti - fruit

frutti

funghi - mushroom(s) (think of fungus. In English we say mushroom omelette, but you receive more than one mushroom. The Italian uses the plural, ending in i). 

grazie - thank you (think of grateful)

ho bisogno di - I need

incidente - accident

insalata - salad

lei - she

lui vuole - he wants

mi scusi - excuse me

molto - much / very

molto gentili - very kind

nero - black

opzioni - options

pepe - pepper

pesce - fish

(il) petto - breast (eg of chicken, or chest in hospital)

pollo - chicken

prego - (in answer to grazie) you're welcome / not at all

rosso - red

salmone - salmon

segno - sign

(in) segreto - a secret

signore - sir

sono - I am

sono a dieta - I am on a diet

subito - straight away

troppo - too much

tonno - tuna

verde - green

vino - wine

vino bianco - white wine (For wine to drink, or white wine sauce on food. The adjective goes after the noun in Italian, as in casa mia meaning my house)

vitello - veal

vogliamo - we want

vuoi - do you want

English - Italian

accident - incidente

after - dopo

and - e

black - nero

carrots - carote

do you want - vuoi

duck - anatra

excuse me - mi scusi

fish - pesce

green - verde

he wants - lui vuole

I am - sono

I am on a diet - sono a dieta

I need (I have need of) - ho bisogno di 

many - molto

mushroom(s) - funghi

options - opzionni

pepper - pepe

red - rosso

salad - insalata

salmon - salmone

she - lei

sign - segno

sir - signore

straight awa y/ immediately - subito

too much - troppo

tuna - tonno

thank you - grazie

veal - vitello

we want - vogliamo

white - bianco

white wine - vino bianco

wine - vino

You're welcome - prego

Useful Websites

Duolingo

Wikipedia - Italian language

Wiivoyage Italian phrasebook

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St Patrick's Day - not over - it's today! Monday!

 The weekend may be over but Monday March 17 th 2025 is St Patrick's Day.  (See my previous posts.) 

Green, white and orange balllons outside Wetherspoons pub, The Moon & Sixpence, in Hatch End. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. 

The orange, white and green balloons brighten the Broadway in Hatch End in north west London. The balloons decorate the seating area at the front of The Moon And Sixpence Wetherspoons pub.

Who climbs up to install those balloons? Your questions are answered by a sign just inside the door.

Balloons by Nation Events. Sign at Wetherspoons pub. 

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

In case you wondered about the colours, they are the colours of the flat of Ireland, Eire.

Flag and Balloons Outside Wetherspoons Pub In Hatch End, North West London.

Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

For those at work, there's still lunch time and Monday evening. For students and the retired, or anybody who chooses to take a day off, you can party any time of day, or all day.

I think of the songs I heard in school when I was a child growing up in England, and also on the radio. 

When Irish eyes are smiling. In Dublin's fair city where the maids are so pretty ,,,

Italian Restaurant Menu Translations

 I am learning Italian, on Duolingo, ready for a holiday next year. Therefore every Italian restaurant menu is a welcome challenge. So are all the multi-language lists of ingredients on chocolate bars, cakes, tins of olives and sardines, and packging from supermarkets.

Here's my most recent look at an Italian restaurant menu.

Antipasto - Starter 

Primo - first course

affumicato - smoked (like our English word fumes)

aglio - garlic

di - of

e - and

fiori - flowers

gamberi - prawns

Insalata - salad

insalata verde - green salad

forno - (in the) oven / baked

fritti - fried

melone - melon

prosciutto - Parma ham (ham from Parma)

salmone - salmon

spinaci - spinach

trota - trout

zucca - zuccini

Pasta

Spaghetti - notice ending in the letter i for plurals

Fettuccine - flat noodles

funghi - mushroooms (like the English word fungus)

porcini - wild mushrooms

vegetariana - vegetarian

Main Courses \

con - with

di - of

fegato - calves' liver

filetto - filet

fritti fried (like our word fritters)

grilia - from the grill/in the grill  - grilled

manzo - beef (think of meat

mare - sea

pepe - pepper (like texting, shorten the English word to get the Italian)

pesce - fish

risotto - rice dish

Wine

rosso - red

vino - wine

vino bianco - white wine

vino rosso - red wine

Payment

carta di credito - credit card

Useful Websites

Duolingo

duolingo.com

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Confusing flags - Can you tell the flag of Ireland from the flag of the Ivory Coast?

 The flag or Eire (Ireland) and the flag of the Ivory Coast have the same colours. But reversed right to left.

Flag of Ireland.

Green white orange. The orange is for the Protestants in the north.

So the green is on the side of the post.

The Ivory Coast flag is the other way around.

Eire on the left. Ivory coast on the right.

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Rules For Weddings & Funerals - Who Is First? Who is the VIP?

Wedding vanue in Albania. Photo by Angela Lansbury

Weddings

The rules are quite simple in the UK and worldwide in most countries. At a wedding the bride comes first. Her dress and event have precedence over any other. 

In the UK and many countries the bride wears white which draws attention to her because nobody else wears white.

However, in Chinese and Asian communities, red is a lucky colour, so the bride might wear white. Or she could wear two or three outfits at different stages of the ceremony.

Some brides and wedding hosts or orgnaizer state a dress code or colour theme. 

You do not upstage the event to celebrate anything else because that is sidetracking attention from them, the event and clothing which they have paid for. 

If in doubt, check with the hosts of the event.

If another event is to be announced, the announcement should be made by the next of kin or Toastmasters of the day with permission from the next of kin.

Funerals

Similarly, at a funeral, the deeased and next of kin come first.

Useful Websites

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13200517/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-American-Riviera-Orchard-William-Diana.html#newcomment

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Wear White At Night For Road Safety

 

Catchy and memorable safety messages abound. My favourites are>

1 Wear white at night. (UK road safety.)

2 When thunder roars, stay indoors. (Swimming pool sign in singapore.)

3 He was right, dead right as he sped along but he's just as dead as if he were wrong. (Victorian gravestone. Is - were is subjunctive.)

The Scottish lorry driver's song is in this 

Useful Website

https://www.headington.org.uk/adverts/pifs/roads/index.htm

Poem 376

Wear white at night

Seen in headlights

And reflectors

Even better

Alive, not dead

Just think ahead

Dead cats and dogs

On roads well known

Stay safe, night white 

Go safely home

White's safe and seen

Black's for burglars

White's for walkers

Black's for murders

White's for children

Fathers, mothers

Adults teachers

And all others.

White's much safer

For dotor and nurse

Wear white walking

Not in a hearse

White is light, right

Wear white at night

White looks so clean

White's safely seen.

Why wear black shoes?

They don't show mud

Black coats and hats

They won't show blood

White hat, scarf, matching gloves

Safer for all your loves

If you don't want them back

Send them out wearing black..

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This is copied from my other blog on comic poetry.

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Fancy Dress and Flags

 

Angela Lansbury in sequin dress in Union Jack, British flag, design, with co-ordinating hat.

I wore this for a second year running at an annual conference, Writers' Summer School at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire, England. My outfit was popular. Half the people were different from last year and had not seen it before. I got lots of compliments and raised eyebrows and smiles.

The Wig

The wig is also in red, white, and blue.

The British people say fancy dress party. Americans say, a costume party. 

I did not wear it for the fancy dress party but for the last night dress up night. People asked me why I did not enter the fancy dress contest with it. The theme was fairy tales. I could not think of a fairy tale containing a Union Jack. I should have worn it anyway. When asked what was the fairy tale, I could have replied, "I don't know. I haven't written it yet. If you have any suggestions, please tell me!"

Useful Websites

https://www.fancydress.com/collections/usa-costumes

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BRITANNIA-SEQUINNED-DRESS-FANCY-PATRIOTIC/dp/B

I like this version with sleeves, if you are willing to spend about 23 pounds and something pence.

Some reviews said the fabric ones were light weight or nearly see-through, but fine over a white tee shirt or underwear. Good for a one night event.

Useful Websites

https://www.fancydress.com/collections/usa-costumes

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Queen's Platinum Jubilee: Trooping the Colour parade, military pageant t...

From global News. Starts with the soldiers on horseback, the guards in red unionf with high fur hats (now synthetic), the queen in pale blue on the balcony with a tall man who resembles Prince Phlip. It ends with planes flying in formation fanning out to make the number 70, then Finally, a flypast of planes with tail lines of red, white and blue. 

Useful Websites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4530KCYg9WQ

What does that surname mean? Is it really a name? Learning, remembering and spelling English and German Foreign names

I gave a speech to Toastmasters on names and their meanings. I remember my surprise on learning that the commonest English surname, Smith comes from Smith, and that the German name Schmidt means smith.

The BBC did a good article on English names.

Rainbow

Today one of my contacts on Facebook, like me an author, had the surname Rainbow. I thought, what a lovely name. Did she make that up, change her name, as a pen name, or as a piece of positive thinking and marketing?

She told me that she chose the name as a pen name. But, after divorcing, she changed her name by deed poll. So the name was chosen, but is also official. 

I looked it up and was pleasantly surprised to find a detailed analysis and research on the name, which could be a translation of the German for rainbow. Regen is German for rain.

Here are some translations of German names and words which are part of names. German has more compound words than English.

German - English

baum - tree

blau - blue

braun/brun - brown

cassell - castle

geduld - patience ((both Dutch and German)

grun - green

klein - small

mann - man

regen - rain

Roth - red (as in Rothschild)

schwartz - black (hair or head or complexion)

wald - wood

weiss - white

English - German

black - Schwartz

blue - Blau

brown - braun

green - grun

man - mann

rain - regen

red - roth

small - klein

white - weiss

wood - wald

Useful Websites

 https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=rainbow

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

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Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

 

Burma or Myanmar - What Armchair Travellers Need to Know and See

 I have a Burmese or Myanmar national in a Toastmasters club. I began wondering which national holidays she might be celebrating, so that I could include them in a calendar of events for 2022 and meeting themes.

Burma is the old name for the country, now called Myanmar, but Burma is still used. Here is the flag.

It has yellow, green and red horizontal stripes, very colourful and  jolly. The colours are made more pronounced by the contrasting five-pointed white star in the centre.

The yellow symbolizes solidarity. Green means peace and lush greenery. Red represents determination. The white star stands for unity.

I had to rename the flag with both of the country's names, Burma and Myanmar, because I could not find it saved on my computer.

The country is large, huge. 

Cities, Sights and Landmarks

Golden Rock, Burma/Myanmar

Myanmar/Burma, Mount Popa

The language looks very pretty, all curves, but very difficult.

Numbers[edit]

Burmese numbers follow the Arabic system of numerals.

0 

၀ (thoun-nya)သုည

1 

၁ (tit)တစ်

2 

၂ (hni)နှစ်

3 

၃ (thoun)သုံး

4 

၄ (lei)လေး

5 

၅ (nga)ငါး

6 

၆ (chao)ခြောက်

7 

၇ (kun hni)ခုနှစ်

8 

၈ (shit)ရှစ်

9 

၉ (koe)ကိုး

10 

၁၀ (se)ဆယ်

11 

၁၁ (seh-tit)ဆယ့်တစ်

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_respelling_of_the_English_alphabet

The numbers one to ten are easier to recognize and learn, in this website:

https://wikitravel.org/en/Burmese_phrasebook

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Myanmar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar

About the author

(About the Author of this blog, Author Angela Lansbury)

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books, including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

I  also have a blog on comic poems.

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Homing Pigeons and Doves - What Are They and Why Pay To Release Them At Events

Basket containing half a dozen doves for release at a funeral.(A cremation.) Thoughtfully and tastefully decorated with white flowers.

 Websites

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/08/what-happens-when-doves-get-released.html

About the Author

Angela Lansbury was born and bred in Britain, and has lived in the USA and Singapore. Her family has worked in or lived in Spain and Switzerland. 

She is the author of several book on public speaking and quotations.

She is a member of Toastmasters Clubs meeting on Zoom with visitors from the UK and USA, India, Sri Lanka, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Through the Toastmasters mentoring program Angela has connected with individuals in Vietnam and Romania, and Belize, a different connection each month. Please come to the next BHA Toastmasters meeting on the 3rd Saturday afternoon every month.

Angela is a member of Harrovian Speakers, London (two Monday evenings each month (BST or GMT) currently part in person and part on Zoom, and VP PR for BHA (1st Monday evening and 3rd Saturday afternoon Singapore Time; and TCA, one Tuesday evening a month, both currently on Zoom, as well as secretary for Singapore Online Dynamic which is online only and always, Friday evening 9.30 pm Singapore time.   

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The Portuguese flag and Portuguese words for colours

Lockdown is lifting. Get ready for your next trip to Portugal, Madeira, Brazil, or to reading about trips to these places and more news on Praia da Luz and Madeleine McCann.


Portuguese flag

Portuguese - English

English - Portuguese

Do you have
a Portuguese flag

Português - inglês
Inglês - português
Você tem
uma bandeira portuguesa

red
orange
yellow
green
blue

vermelho - red (like vermilion)
laranja (like orange)
amarelo
verde (like verdant)
azul

navy blue/dark blue
violet
purple
pink
black - white

Português - inglês Inglês - português Você tem azul marinho / azul escuro (like marine, like obscure) tolet (violet and tolet both end with et) roxa Rosa (like rose pink) Preto - black; branco - white (like blank white paper)

grey
not grey

striped
patterned

no striped
polka dots

coloured
multi coloured

bright colours
pale colours

cinzento
não cinza
listrado (striped like lines crossing out a shopping list)
estampado (pattern stamped on it)
não listrado
bolinhas
colori - coloured
multi colorido - multi coloured
cores brilhantes - brilliant colours

cores pálidas - pale colours

I like
I want
small
bigger

how much
cheaper

Perfect
I'll buy it

Thank you
Goodbye

Eu gosto
eu quero
pequeno
Maior (big or major)

quanto
mais barato (m for much or more)
Perfeito - perfect PERFE .T in both words
Vou comprar
Obrigado - obliged/much obliged/ thanks
Adeus - like mixing Spanish adios with French adieu

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
Or quicker to type and easier to remember:  tinyurl.com/BHACOOL

Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8384769/Major-breakthrough-hunt-Madeleine-McCann-police-identify-German-suspect.html
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_patrim%C3%B3nio_edificado_no_distrito_de_Faro
translate.google.com
duolingo.com

Welsh Flag - snippet

Baner Cymru or Y Ddraig Goch, meaning 'the red dragon'. The green and white are the Tudor colours. Henry, Prince of Wales, had the red dragon on his flag and eventually it became the flag of Wales.

Gosh, how did I miss that information. I found it in Wikipedia. I should have read that dozens of times, whenever I looked up the flag. 

Maybe I read it before and didn't care. My family just returned from Wales and I'm fact checking. Suddenly, that information jumped out at me. Those people from long ago, with their ambitions and pride, still influencing us today.

About the Author
Travel Writer and photographer, author and speaker. Teacher of English and other languages. Making language learning and travel fun. (Making it fun is not the same as making fun of it. Oh the fun of puns.) 
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Where To See The Hong Kong Flag And Its Symbol

The Hong Kong flag.

The Hong Kong flag is red.

The Hong Kong flag's background colour is like the flag of China. No coincidence.


The Flag of China.

On the flag of Hong Kong, the white pattern is the orchid, symbol of Hong Kong.

A large model of the orchid is in the square.


The Hong Kong Orchid in Hong Kong on the Golden Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai.

Every day, if you get up early, at 8.30 am you can see the flag raising ceremony and hear the national anthem.

Wiki usefully explains:

 Enhanced Flag Raising Ceremony (on the 1st of every month, except July and October) and the Special Flag Raising Ceremony (1 July and 1 October).

The daily ceremony includes regular attire and includes the playing of the national anthem, while the enhanced ceremony includes a flag-raising party of Hong Kong police officers, accompanied by a rifle unit all in ceremonial dress, and also includes the playing of the national anthem by the Police Band followed by a 10-minute musical performance by the Police Pipe Band.^[2]

Since July 2008, on the second Sunday of each month, the flag raising ceremony is conducted by different local youth uniformed groups (UGs). The UGs conduct the daily flag raising ceremony (i.e. the flag party consists of five members: one commander, two national flag raisers and two regional flag raisers) without a band performance.

The monument is outside the Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Hong Kong language is Cantonese.

Wan Chai is on the north shore of Hong Kong Island.

At the time of writing, Feb 2020, Hong Kong has been off limits for many tourists. (See wikivoyage for update and your country's government advice to travellers.)
As it is part of China, and in the region, the corona virus is also a concern to travellers. However, even if one's next trip has to be postponed for a while, as armchair travellers, it is a delight to learn about the flags and sights of another country.

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bauhinia_Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Chai
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hong_Kong
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Singapore
Duolingo has Chinese (Mandarin) rather than Cantonese but it is still a help.


Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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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.

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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


translate.google.com


duolingo


duolingo.com


memrise
https://www.memrise.com/



memrise.com




TRAVEL


Singapore Airlines


singaporeair.com




About the Author


Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages.