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Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
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James tells us why he thinks there’s such enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic in schools.
  1. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  2. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  3. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  5. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  6. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  7. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  8. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  9. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  10. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  11. Names and Questions
    07:57
    Names and Questions
  12. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  13. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  14. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  15. Down Behind The Dustbin
    02:41
    Down Behind The Dustbin
  16. Comics
    04:26
    Comics
  17. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
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