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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. Down Behind The Dustbin
    02:41
    Down Behind The Dustbin
  9. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  10. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  11. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  12. Authors Live with Holly Bourne
    34:04
    Authors Live with Holly Bourne
  13. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  14. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  15. Introducing Sav Akyuz
    01:45
    Introducing Sav Akyuz
  16. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
  17. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
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