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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. Questions from West Calder High School
    05:42
    Questions from West Calder High School
  9. This is a democracy
    00:39
    This is a democracy
  10. Themes of The Infinite
    01:29
    Themes of The Infinite
  11. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  12. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  13. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  14. Reading from 'Luna Loves Art'
    05:38
    Reading from 'Luna Loves Art'
  15. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  16. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  17. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
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