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    A famous paint commercial from Puerto Rico from the 1990s became locally viral by using a patriotic song set to Caribbean rhythms coupled with colorful images to promote their paint company. The jingle taught Puerto Ricans the colors in Spanish and became a de facto "second national anthem." The article then shares the full video and lyrics of the song, called "Los Colores de mi Tierra," and explains the Spanish vocabulary used in it to teach colors like raspberry, white, yellow, green, blue, red, and turquoise as well as words like snow cone, mango, and flame tree. It also gives credit to the song's original creators.

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    A famous paint commercial from Puerto Rico from the 1990s became locally viral by using a patriotic song set to Caribbean rhythms coupled with colorful images to promote their paint company. The jingle taught Puerto Ricans the colors in Spanish and became a de facto "second national anthem." The article then shares the full video and lyrics of the song, called "Los Colores de mi Tierra," and explains the Spanish vocabulary used in it to teach colors like raspberry, white, yellow, green, blue, red, and turquoise as well as words like snow cone, mango, and flame tree. It also gives credit to the song's original creators.

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    A famous paint commercial from Puerto Rico from the 1990s became locally viral by using a patriotic song set to Caribbean rhythms coupled with colorful images to promote their paint company. The jingle taught Puerto Ricans the colors in Spanish and became a de facto "second national anthem." The article then shares the full video and lyrics of the song, called "Los Colores de mi Tierra," and explains the Spanish vocabulary used in it to teach colors like raspberry, white, yellow, green, blue, red, and turquoise as well as words like snow cone, mango, and flame tree. It also gives credit to the song's original creators.

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    LOS COLORES DE MI TIERRA: Video and Song to Learn Colors in Spanish Plus 7 Other Words 12/19/17, 9:42 AM

    LOS COLORES DE MI TIERRA: Video


    and Song to Learn Colors in Spanish
    Plus 7 Other Words

    Before YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, a famous house paint commercial


    from Puerto Rico became viral locally during the 1990’s. To promote their
    company, Harris Paints created a song with Caribbean rhythms and a
    patriotic lyric coupled with images of colorful splashes of paints. Frequency
    and a captive audience ensured this song stuck in the minds of a whole Puerto
    Rican generation. This commercial was aired for years in all of the movie
    theaters around the Island.

    Even though the ad is not shown anymore, it is considered as the “second


    national anthem of Puerto Rico”. I will share with you the complete video and

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    LOS COLORES DE MI TIERRA: Video and Song to Learn Colors in Spanish Plus 7 Other Words 12/19/17, 9:42 AM

    lyrics of this masterpiece that will bring good memories to Puerto Ricans and
    will help others to learn the colors and some other Puerto Rican Spanish
    words. So stand up, place your right hand over your heart and sing with me!

    Learn Colors in Spanish With Video Los colores de mi


    tierra

    Anuncio Completo de Harris Paints !!!

    SPANISH ORIGINAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION

    Pinta tu vida Color your life


    con los colores de mi tierra. with the colors of my country.
    Pinta tu vida… Color your life…
    Frambuesa piragua. Raspberry snow cone.
    Blanco como el coco. White as coconut.
    Amarillo mangó. Yellow mango.

    Verde quenepa. Green Spanish lime fruit.


    Azul de adoquines. Blue from cobblestone.
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    Rojo flamboyán. Red flame tree.


    Turquesa del mar. Turquoise from the sea.

    Los colores de mi tierra, The colors of my country,


    nuestros colores. our colors.
    Pinta tu vida Color your life
    con los colores que Harris te with the color that Harris gives
    da. you.

    Isn’t it beautiful?! So now is the time to give credit to the creators that have
    passed unnoticed through the years. This song was written by Orlando
    Lagomarsino, the music was by Alberto Carrión and the singer is Darvel
    García.

    Learn Spanish vocabulary words from the Harris Paint


    commercial

    Now, let’s review the Spanish vocabulary of this song more deeply.

    1. Pinta
    From the verb pintar, is the literal English translation of “to paint.” But in the
    context of this song, the word I used was “color” that is more aligned with the
    actual message: “give color to your life”.

    2. Tierra
    This word can be translated using different words in English, for example:
    dirt, Earth or land. In this case, tierra means “country.”

    3. Piragua
    In Puerto Rico it means “snow cone.” But in the rest of Latin America a
    piragua is a long canoe or kayak. Check out this infographic with 13 words in
    Spanish for snow cone.

    4. Mangó

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    You might know this one, but I pointed it out because of the Puerto Rican
    pronunciation. Notice that Puerto Ricans put the stress at the end of the word
    and write it with an accent mark in the ó. In other countries is simply mango.

    5. Quenepa
    Is a green colored small tropical fruit. Some other names are mamoncillo,
    mamón, ackee, Spanish lime, genip, guinep, genipe, or honeyberry.

    6. Adoquines
    Plural for adoquín. These are cobblestones that can be seen in the streets of
    Old San Juan. They are blue colored and were brought in during the XVI and
    XVII centuries when the Island was a Spanish colony. The adoquines were
    used as ballast in the Spanish ships.

    7. Flamboyán
    Is a big shade flower tree, with the most common variation being red. Other
    names I could find were Royal Poinciana, Flamboyant or Flame Tree. You can
    also find this tree with yellow or orange flowers. Other Spanish names from
    Latin America are: chivato (Argentina and Paraguay), acacia roja (Colombia
    and Honduras), ponciana (Perú), and malinche (Central America).

    Check out these other articles to help you Learn Spanish.

    Collage photo descriptions and credits: Photos from Flickr: 1. PIRAGUA:


    Adding Syrup by edenpictures 2. COCO: Coconut (halved) by SingChan 3.
    MANGO: Cut mango by joyosity 4. QUENEPAS: ganepas by h-bomb 5.
    ADOQUINES: Adoquines by Diana Caballero 6. FLAMBOYAN: flamboyán by
    d3b…* 7. SEA: Vieques NWR beach by USFWS Headquarters via flickr

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