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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. Cracking questions
    02:08
    Cracking questions
  9. Boogie Woogie Buggy
    01:41
    Boogie Woogie Buggy
  10. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
  11. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  12. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  13. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  14. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  15. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  16. Writing historical fiction
    03:58
    Writing historical fiction
  17. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
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