A plurality say Spanish is red. Click a color to add your vote.
Spanish is red because…
“The flag of Spain is red and in all the language exhibits like in Duolingo, it shows Spanish as red. Red also just feels like a very Spain thing.”
“The students in Spanish class always get to do fun crafts, usually involving red paper. In French class we never get to do anything...”
“There’s red in the flag, and the language just sounds red.”
“All the Spanish textbooks we have in class are red.”
“It reminds me of a flamenco dancer I saw. She was wearing a red flowy dress. Also Spanish is a very passionate color. It reminds me of fire which I associate with the color red.”
“Spanish is red because it gives red vibes and most Hispanic countries have red on their flag.”
“It’s on the flag of Spain.”
Spanish is orange because…
“English is already red (at least where school subjects are concerned, having the same color referring to two different subjects could get confusing) and orange is both a warm color and matches the flag of Spain. ”
“Looks orangey.
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“Spanish feels fast. Orange is fast.”
“Spain has an orange flag. Also, a lot of the humanities are orange.”
“It’s got beaches! And spicy food! And sunsets! And warm weather! And sunsets!”
“It’s a bright and exciting language.”
“Spanish is accociated with bright vibrant colors, an orange is a bright color.”
“The Spain flag’s main colours are red and yellow. Thus, Spanish as a whole should be a mix of the two, or orange.”
“It’s a mix of the two colours on their flag.”
“I associate the color orange with Spanish because of the Spanish flag, but also because our textbooks in school are slightly more orange than red.”
Spanish is yellow because…
“It is the majority of the flag and it symbolises the sun and warmth from it.”
“If you look at a Spanish satellite image, it’s mostly yellow! ”
“The language feels yellow.”
“Because when I took Spanish class, my notebook was yellow.”
“The flag has a lot of yellow.”
“The language itself sounds yellow.”
“Spain is very sunny, and the sun is yellow. Also the flag has some yellow on it.”
Spanish is green because…
“Many Spanish speaking countries have green in their flag and the Duolingo song ‘Spanish or Vanish’ features the green Duolingo bird.”
“The Mexican flag?”
Spanish is purple because…
“It’s my Spanish wife’s favorite color.”
Spanish is blue because…
“Because at my school, books in Spanish had blue tags on them.”