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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. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  9. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  10. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  11. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
  12. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  13. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  14. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  15. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  16. Brian’s writing and favourite books
    04:33
    Brian’s writing and favourite books
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    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
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