The Spanish words for the colors black, blue, green, red, and yellow are not hard too difficult to remember. The Spanish word for black is Negro. Negro is pronounced "nay-grow" as oppossed to "nee-grow" in American slang. While the American slang word is unfortunate, you can take advantage of it to help you remember the Spanish word for black. Just be sure to prounounce the Spanish word for the color black correctly to avoid insulting anyone.

The Spanish word for blue is azul (pronounced "asool". While the word azul doesn't look or sound anything like the word blue, azul is four letters long like the word blue so you can use that, at least, to help you remember that azule is the Spanish word for blue.

The Spanish word for green is verde (prounouced with an almost silent b sound--bear-day). Many words that start with v in Spanish have a near silent b sound. Verde is easily remembered by anyone familiar with Tex-Mex food and the popular green spicy sauce called Verde sauce.

The Spanish word for red is rojo (prounouced row-ho--where the r rolls slightly). Rojo and red may not sound the same, but they are both short words and they both start with the letter r which should help you to remember that Rojo is the Spanish word for red.

The Spanish word for yellow is amarillo (prounouced am-a-ridyo--where the dy are sort of rolled on the tongue slightly). Amarillo is the name of a town in Texas, so if you're familiar with Amarillo, it's not hard to remember amarillo is the Spanish word for yellow.

Here are five more colors you can learn in Spanish. Perhaps the easiest to remember, even if you’ve never heard it or read it before, is the Spanish word for “purple” – púrpura. That’s not too difficult to remember. And the word for white is “blanca”, or “blanco” when the noun being described is masculine. That’s another easy Spanish vocabulary word, because you can definitely describe something that is white as being “blank,” like a blank piece of white paper.

The color gray is “gris” in Spanish. You can always relate that to the English word “grease”, since they are pronounced the same, and you could almost say that grease is “gris” in color. Brown is also an easy one to remember since the Spanish word for the color is “café”; simply remind yourself that coffee is brown, and in Spanish brown is “café”, and you’ve got it!

Perhaps the most difficult Spanish color word to remember is the one for orange. That word is “naranja”. That is one that you just have to memorize, although you might remind yourself that the word for orange is “naranja” whether you are referring to the color, or to the actual fruit itself!