After lighting the Hanukkah menorah, it is a tradition in many homes to play the dreidel game: Each player starts out with 10 or 15 coins (real or of chocolate), nuts, raisins, candies or other markers, and places one marker in the "pot." The first player spins the dreidel, and depending on which side the dreidel falls on, either wins a marker from the pot or gives up part of his stash. The code (based on a Yiddish version of the game) is as follows:
* Nun–nisht, "nothing"–nothing happens and the next player spins. * Gimel–gants, "all"–the player takes the entire pot. * Hey–halb, "half"–the player takes half of the pot, rounding up if there is an odd number. * Shin–shtel ayn, "put in"–the player puts one marker in the pot The game may last until one person has won everything.
This blog has been built thinking of all audiences to make the study of English as a second language easier than it may seem at first sight.
It will provide you with many useful tools and, at the same time, it will show the importance of English in many countries off the British boundaries, filling the cultural gap we may have and drawing tighter to remote peoples.
Last but not least, I can never thank enough my colleages for their encouragement and endless support to start this e-adventure.
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