I guarantee this will be one of the most colorful English lessons you will ever watch.
What's up everyone? My name is Wes. This is interactive English,
which is all about helping you practice and improve your English skills.
And today I have, well it it, it's two parts.
It's a vocabulary lesson as well as a pronunciation lesson.
I'm going to talk to you about 12 colors and these are,
I'd say these are advanced vocabulary words because some of these colors you may
not be familiar with when I show you the colors, you'll notice them,
but you might not know the name,
but learning these colors will help you be a little more precise when you're
having conversations and you're talking about the colors that you see in nature
such as flowers or maybe the clothes that people wear or even the cars that they
drive. Learning these colors will help.
I'm also going to teach you the pronunciation of these words and I will give you
both the phonetic spelling and the IPA so that you know how to pronounce them
perfectly. The first color I have for you and I,
I really like this color that is turquoise.
Now turquoise has two syllables and the stresses on the first syllable,
Turquoise. Turquoise. This is a blue,
green color that is actually named after the the gem and Turquoise is a French
word that actually means Turkish because the gem was imported from Turkey.
So now you know how to pronounce turquoise and you know a little bit about its
history. And when I think of turquoise, I think of the water, the ocean,
it's just this turquoise. This blue green I think is really beautiful.
It looks very nice and you could describe it as, wow,
you know that that is a beautiful turquoise color.
This is another example of turquoise.
Now if you're wondering what this rubber spoon looking thing is,
it's actually used to wipe cream on a baby's bum. It's not for me.
We have a baby girl. That's why we have this. I hope you believe me.
The next color is fuchsia.
This word has two syllables and the stress is on that first syllable,
fyoo-shuh. Fuchsia. Now you may be looking at this color and thinking,
well isn't that just pink? It is a bit of a strong pink.
But this red purplish color is actually named after the flower of the fuchsia plant.
So that is a great example as to when you might talk about this color and use it
when, when talking about flowers,
perhaps you could use it when talking about the color of somebody's shoes or
maybe even a color of lipstick. Fuchsia.
Next is navy and this is actually a shade of blue and you might often
hear it used in combination with the word blue and people will just say navy blue.
And the word has two syllables and the stresses on that first syllable ney-vee.
Navy blue.
Now this is just a dark blue color and it's also another color that I like cause
quite a few of my clothes are our navy.
Let let me show you and give you an example.
So I could say here comes Wes sporting an all navy outfit with a navy long
sleeve shirt and some navy cargo shorts that actually look a little too big.
And I don't know why I look like I'm, I'm dancing instead of modeling.
Yeah. I, I don't have much of a modeling career as you can tell.
Then we have the color crimson and this word also has two syllables and the
stresses on that first syllable.
That second syllable has a bit of that schwa, that /uh/ sound crimson,
and this color is a shade of red.
It can actually be described as a strong, bright, deep red,
at least according to the Wikipedia page.
That is a good way to describe crimson and when I think about this color,
I might think of maybe a paint. You're going in the store,
you want to paint your room, you want to paint whatever it is,
and you might find crimson the color, this strong, the strong red,
perhaps the color of somebody's car is a strong crimson red.
Then we have this color right here, which is beige.
Just one syllable. Very simple, very short,
beige and beige is shorthand for I think a variety of colors.
It can be used to describe a yellowish brown color to a light brownish gray,
and you would just say it's beige. And when I think of this color,
I think you would hear it a lot when talking about the color of somebody's
clothes. You could say that they have beige pants or trousers or,
or a beige hat or a beige jacket.
I think you often find a variety of clothes that can be identified as beige.
The next color is auburn,
two syllables and the stress is on that first syllable.
And you may be looking at this right now and thinking, well,
what is the difference between auburn and crimson?
Both of them are our dark shades of red,
but I would say Auburn is just slightly darker.
It's a slightly darker shade of red than crimson.
And when I think of auburn and the way it's used and how it might be discussed,
I think of people's hair describing their hair color as auburn,
or maybe somebody's going to get highlights in their hair and they want some
auburn highlights. You can use this color to describe other things as well,
but I just personally ended up thinking about hair, a hair color. Auburn.
Another popular color lavender.
This word has three syllables and the stresses on that first syllable,
lav-uhn-der. And lavender...I know you've seen this color,
you may have already heard of it before.
It's kind of just a light purple and when I think about this word being used,
I think about weirdly enough bedsheets and linens and towels that if it has
this, this light purple, it is lavender. Everybody loves lavender.
I love lavender as well, which is why I have some lavender sheets.
You just can't get enough lavender. Do you guys have lavender sheets?
Let me know. Then we have magenta.
This word has three syllables and the stress is on that second syllable muh-gen-tuh.
The first syllable has that schwa that /uh/. Magenta.
Now magenta could be defined as a purplish red color. When I see it,
I think it is a bit of a pink, a shade of pink, maybe more of a hot pink.
But when I also think of Magenta, I again just me.
I don't know why I think about the crayons.
It reminds me of my childhood and I think back to when I was drawing pictures
with crayons because in my box of crayons I remember vividly that there was a crayon magenta.
The next color is teal and this word has just one syllable.
It's very easy to pronounce teal and this is probably probably my favorite color
on this list. Teal. I like that. That blue,
green color and fun fact.
The name teal comes from the Eurasian Teal,
which is a duck that has a stripe on its head,
which is the same color teal. Then we have amber,
which has two syllables and the stresses on that first syllable,
am-ber. And amber is a yellowish orange color and the name comes from the
material, the material amber, and when I think of amber,
I don't know why I think of paint.
Some places are very vibrant and colorful and walking around.
You might see buildings or homes or offices that have that color paint and amber
color. The next color is burgundy.
This word has three syllables and the stress is on that first syllable, bur-guhn-dee.
And burgundy is a dark red and it has a bit of purple in it as well.
And the name comes from the burgundy wine. That's where it comes from.
Burgundy wine.
And I think the color burgundy is often associated with with clothing.
Somebody could have a burgundy colored jacket or maybe burgundy socks,
perhaps a burgundy hat. Basically anything that you wear,
it could be burgundy. Then we have scarlet.
This word has two syllables and the stress is on that first syllable and we're
going back to a shade of red.
This is a bright red with a bit of an orange feel to it and scarlett is another
one of those colors.
I think you might often hear it with the word red and people would describe
something as being a scarlet red, such as again,
the color of somebody's hair. I, when I hear the word scarlet,
I think of a hair color and somebody describes it as being scarlet,
scarlet red. So now you just greatly expanded your color vocabulary and,
and I want to hear from you.
Out of all of these colors that you just learned today, which is your favorite,
I already told you that, that mine would be teal. I like that,
that blue green color, that teal color.
Let me know in the comments which color you prefer.
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thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time.