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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. Inspiration
    02:14
    Inspiration
  9. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  10. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  11. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  12. What are you favourite things about books?
    01:20
    What are you favourite things about books?
  13. Emily's Books
    02:27
    Emily's Books
  14. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  15. Wishes
    01:04
    Wishes
  16. Creating a Poem
    08:58
    Creating a Poem
  17. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
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