| Hello everyone! |
| Welcome back to ItalianPod101.com. |
| My name is Desy. |
| Mi chiamo Desy. |
| And in this video, we're going to talk about colors. |
| I colori. |
| So if you want to know which is my favorite color, |
| I know you probably don't really care, |
| but you have to keep watching. |
| First of all, let me teach you some useful adjectives |
| that you can use with every color, |
| and then we're going to check together the colors themselves. |
| So a color, un colore, can be |
| può essere, un colore, può essere |
| chiaro or scuro. |
| Chiaro, bright, chiaro, or scuro. |
| Dark, scuro, dark. |
| Chiaro, scuro, chiaro, bright, scuro. |
| Dark, for example, spoiler, |
| blu, scuro, blu, scuro. |
| Or blu, chiaro, blu, chiaro. |
| Light blue or deep blue, dark blue. |
| Of course, we also have cold colors, |
| colori freddi, freddi, colori freddi, |
| as in freddo, cold, |
| or colori caldi, colori caldi. |
| Hot, warm, warm colors, colori caldi. |
| Now, for every color, I'm going to try and put that into a phrase |
| that is more or less famous, okay? |
| So you're not only going to learn about colors, |
| but about famous ways of saying. |
| How do you like that? |
| Let's start with the colors that are technically not colors, right? |
| So we have black, nero, nero, nero come la notte, nero come la notte. |
| Nero, black, as night, come la notte, as the night, nero come la notte. |
| On the contrary, we have bianco, bianco, white, bianco, bianco come la neve, |
| white as snow, bianco come la neve, snow. |
| In fact, snow white is bianca neve, bianca neve in Italian. |
| And if we want to put the two colors or the two non-colors together, |
| we can say, mettere nero su bianco, mettere nero su bianco. |
| So basically, to put black on white, which means to write down, to record, |
| not to just talk about something, but to have it written down, where we can see that. |
| Mettere nero su bianco, to state, basically. |
| Moving on with real colors, we have verde, verde, green, verde. |
| L'erba del vicino è sempre più verde. |
| L'erba, the grass, del vicino, of the neighbor, è sempre, is always, più verde, greener, right? |
| Actually, in English would be, the grass is always greener on the other side. |
| We say, the neighbor's grass, it's always greener. |
| L'erba del vicino è sempre più verde. |
| L'erba del vicino è sempre più verde. |
| giallo, giallo, yellow, be careful if there is no I in between, is gallo, gallo, which is the animal. |
| So giallo, for example, l'arbitro ha dato un cartellino giallo. |
| The referee gave a yellow card, un cartellino giallo. |
| Yellow card, arbitro, referee. |
| L'arbitro ha dato un cartellino giallo. |
| arancione, orange |
| arancione, arancione, l'arancione è il colore dell'autunno. |
| Orange is the color of autumn, autunno. |
| l'arancione è il colore dell'autunno. |
| As a pumpkin, right? |
| Pumpkin, by the way, is zucca, zucca. |
| Blue, as I said before, is blue, yes. |
| The ocean is deep blue, deep blue. |
| Intenso actually means intense, right? |
| But we can use it for colors as well. |
| Blue intenso or blu scuro. |
| Blu chiaro can also be called azzurro, azzurro. |
| Like the sky is azzurro, light blue, which is my favorite color. |
| But I'm going to talk about that later as well. |
| Azzurro. |
| Now, talking about sky. |
| Rosso di sera, bel tempo si spera. |
| Rosso di sera, red at night. |
| Bel tempo, good weather, si spera. |
| Inside, but literally means we hope, it's hoped. |
| There is hope for good weather if it's red at night. |
| Red sky at night, good weather inside. |
| Rosso di sera, bel tempo si spera. |
| Rosso, rosso, red. |
| While rosa, rosa is pink, pink, rosa. |
| Be careful because when you're using rosso, since these words can be used as adjectives as well, |
| if you say, for example, macchina rossa, so a red car, |
| Rosso, rosso becomes rossa, right, because macchina is feminine. |
| So macchina rossa is red car, while macchina rosa, rosa, is pink. |
| So there is no double S. Double S is for red, while just one S is for pink. |
| Rosa, z, rosa. |
| Pink is often associated with girls. |
| Il rosa è spesso associato alle bambine. |
| Viola, viola, purple, viola. |
| Sto cercando dei pantaloni viola. |
| I'm looking for purple trousers. |
| Sto cercando dei pantaloni viola. |
| Then we have grigio, grigio, grigio, gray. |
| Il cielo d'inverno è grigio. |
| Sky in winter is gray. |
| Il cielo d'inverno è grigio, grigio. |
| Marrone, marrone is brown. |
| Una borsa marrone è sempre utile. |
| A brown bag is always useful. |
| This is for girls especially, I guess. |
| A brown bag is always useful. |
| Una borsa marrone è sempre utile. |
| Borsa marrone, brown bag. |
| Careful with hair because, for example, while for black we say capelli neri, |
| for marrone we don't say marrone, I mean you can, but the technical word is castani. |
| Capelli castani, brown hair. |
| And biondi, biondi is blonde. |
| But this is just for hair. |
| Anyway, two more colors are argentato and dorato. |
| Give me some time to explain. |
| Argentato comes from argento, which is silver, argento. |
| So if I say la collana è d'argento, la collana, the necklace, è d'argento, |
| means la collana è fatta d'argento. |
| So the necklace is made of silver. |
| La collana è fatta d'argento, argento, silver. |
| While if I say la collana è argentata, la collana è argentata, |
| means that la collana è di colore argento. |
| So the color of the necklace is silver. |
| Argentato just says something about the color, while argento is the material. |
| Be careful about this when you're buying, especially if it's a present. |
| And the same goes for gold. |
| Oro is gold and dorato is the color, gold. |
| For example, earrings, gli orecchini d'oro, the earrings made of gold, orecchini d'oro. |
| While orecchini dorati just means that the earrings are golden, golden color. |
| And that being said, quale è il tuo colore preferito? |
| Which one is your favorite color? |
| Qual è il tuo colore preferito? |
| Il mio colore preferito è l'azzurro. |
| My favorite color is light blue. |
| But recently, ma recentemente, recentemente, recently, mi piace molto, I like a lot, il grigio, il grigio. |
| Ma recentemente, mi piace molto il grigio. |
| Recently, I like gray a lot. |
| Thank you for watching. |
| I hope this video may come to hand when you're shopping, maybe. |
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| I'll see you soon. |
| Ci vediamo presto! |
| Bye bye! Ciao ciao! |
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