What is your word for...?

Dear Daniela and Clase 3,

What color is your gatito? Is your gatito brown? These are our color words in English. Will you tell us the color words in Spanish? Maybe our friends in Japan will tell us their words in Japanese, too.

Ashley

Friends in Japan, Peru and Brasil wrote back and gave us their words for our colors, numbers and months.

English	Spanish	Japanese	Portuguese
red	rojo	aka	vermelho
blue	azul	ao	azul
purple	morado	murasaki	roxo
green	verdi	midori	verde
yellow	amarillo	ki-iro	amarelo
orange	anaranjado	daidai	laranja
white	blanco	shiro	branco
black	negro	kuro	preto
hot pink	fucsia	momo-iro	maravilha
blue green	turquesa	ao-midori	verde água

Did your cat go to many places? Can you tell me about where your cat went? Do you think the cat will come back? Did he go away in September? These are our months. Will you write them in Spanish?

Erika

English	Spanish	Japanese	Portuguese
January	enero	iti-gatsu	janeiro
February	febrero	ni-gatsu	fevereiro
March	marzo	san-gatsu	março
April	abril	si-gatsu	abril
May	mayo	go-gatsu	maio
June	junio	roku-gatsu	junho
July	julio	shiti-gatsu	julho
August	agosto	hachi-gatsu	agosto
September	septiembre	ku-gatsu	setembro
October	octubre	ju-gatsu	outubro
November	noviembre	juichi-gatsu	novembro
December	diciembre	juni-gatsu	dezembro

Dear Daniela and clase 3,

How old is your cat? What color is your cat? Where did he go in the United States? Did he go to my state? Did he go to Maryland? How many weeks has he been gone? These are our numbers in English, Will you write them in Spanish?

Nathan

English	Spanish	Japanese	Portuguese
one	uno	ichi	um
two	dos	ni	dois
three	tres	san	tres
four	cuatro	shi	quatro
five	cinco	go	cinco
six	seis	roku	seis
seven	siete	shichi	sete
eight	ocho	hachi	oito
nine	nueve	ku	nove
ten	diez	ju	dez

Patricia A. Weeg

pweeg@shore.intercom.net