No sound coming out of external speakers

Here's my situtation. I just recently received my MacBook and I wanted to connect my external speakers that I used with my previous PC laptop. It worked perfectly with the PC laptop. When I plug in the speaker cord into the port, no sound comes out of the external speakers. But sound comes out of the internal MacBook speakers.
I plugged it in the right port.
Volume is on both in the MacBook and the external speakers.
Speakers are on.
Speakers worked fine with my PC laptop.
What can i do? The connection is fine because it was just plugged in my PC laptop and they were working. Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks for the reply. This is what i tried...its really weird but it works.
I plugged in the speaker plug into the port with the headphone symbol and now sound comes out of the speakers! (Maybe this was the correct port in the first place! Sorry for the newbie mistake.) I was used to ports being color coded and I just plugged in the green speaker cord into the green port on my PC.
So the port on the left is for audio in right?
And the port with the headphone symbol is for headphones and speaker (audio out)
When I go to to System Preferences, it recognizes the speakers as "Headphones". But I don't think that really matters.
Thanks for the help. I have sound now coming out of my external speakers.

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