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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. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  9. Scottish words and questions from schools
    08:09
    Scottish words and questions from schools
  10. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
  11. Myths and Monsters
    11:48
    Myths and Monsters
  12. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  13. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  14. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  15. Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
    06:17
    Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
  16. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  17. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
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