Do you hear languages as Color/Colour?

I don't think about this much, but I know that I hear certain accents and languages as different shades. This has nothing to do with race, btw.

Anyone who hears in color out there?

You mean something like:


English - pale red
Italian - yellow
Spanish - orange
German - gray
Portuguese - tan
French - green

etc.?

I have an idea of what you're talking about. I don't have perfect pitch (at ALL) but certain musical keys have 'colors' I associate with them. I can see how accents or languages may be the same.

<< English - pale red
Italian - yellow
Spanish - orange
German - gray
Portuguese - tan
French - green >>

-- I also feel that French is green and Spanish is orange.
But to me English is greenish yellow. Something quite warm along with a high grade of acidity (maybe because of lemon, Limeys...)

Italian is definitely Ferrari red. Bloody colourful!

Germanic languages are various shades of light grey or full transparency, Standard German being crystal clear and Swedish having a blueish hue.

Polish is beige, Russian greyish brown, Croatian wine (brownish) red.

And Chinese is the colour of shit.

<<-- I also feel that French is green and Spanish is orange.
But to me English is greenish yellow. Something quite warm along with a high grade of acidity (maybe because of lemon, Limeys...)>>

I think the colors in my earlier post just come from a 1952 Rand McNally Cosmopolitan Atlas.

British Empire, Massachusetts -- pastel red
French Empire -- pastel green
Italy, China, Illinois -- yellow
Spain, Soviet Union, New York State -- pastel orange
etc.

French = pink
Italian = blue-green
Spanish = red
POrtuguese = yellow
German = grey
England = green or light grey
Dutch = orange
Swedish = white
Russian = white and black
Greece = blue
Romanian = brown

English: white
Italian: black
French: pink
Spanish: brown
Chinese: yellow

With the descriptions I see above, I wonder if other factors are playing into the blees we see.

Like, I near 100% agree with PARISIEN's color-associations, but in the back of my mind I am wondering if there isn't something in addition to the language, like the country's flag, the country's climate, national dress, etc that is influencing why I am seeing these hues.

"Ferrari Red" is a perfect byspel of this : )

English "white" (for plainness) is too

When I think of the color of a language, I mostly have the respective flags in mind.

French - blue
English (England) - red
German - gold/ also red
Swedish - yellow
Danish - red
Italian - green
Spanish - yellow
Portuguese - green
Russian - red
Greece - blue

and Dutch - orange for sure

oops, I meant "Greek".

Sorry, I don't see that at all. I associate the language with the country's color on the map. For example, Britain is greenish-blue, Italy is yellow-green, France is puce, the USSR is pink, Sweden is yellow, and Yugoslavia is brown. I wonder when this school is going to get new maps... sheesh. The Soviet Union fell sometime in the 1900s, but have the same old maps. And not just in one classroom...At least the flags have all 50 stars on it--well except the one in the gym.

<< in the back of my mind I am wondering if there isn't something in addition to the language, like the country's flag, the country's climate, national dress, etc that is influencing why I am seeing these hues.
>>

I suspect you're on to something. I assocaite most digits with colors:

0 - gray
1 - white
2 - ?? (something light colored)
3 - (light) blue
4 - purple (reddish)
5 - yellow
6 - red
7 - green
8 - black
9 - brown

I suspect back when I first learned the digits, some book had the digits in these colors.

I associate languages with body parts:


English - mouth
French - hips
Spanish - nostrils
Russian - elbow
Chinese - ass (unwiped)
Japanese - ass (wiped)
Hebrew - shaved penis
Arabic - unshaved penis
Turkish - pubes
Bulgarian - knee
Hollandish - breasts
Danish - stomach
Latvian - eyebrows
Estonian - broken scab

english - lime green
german - brown
french - pink
spanish - baby blue
portuguese - cherry red
dutch - orange
swedish - yellow
russian - violet
polish - gray
croatian - wine red
greek - purple
italian - violet