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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. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
  9. Questions from pupils
    02:50
    Questions from pupils
  10. Questions from the audience
    09:53
    Questions from the audience
  11. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
  12. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  13. It Does Matter
    02:17
    It Does Matter
  14. Books and confidence
    01:08
    Books and confidence
  15. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  16. Bear Moves
    02:28
    Bear Moves
  17. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
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