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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 schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  9. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  10. Remembering Kobe Bryant
    01:41
    Remembering Kobe Bryant
  11. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  12. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  13. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  14. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  15. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  16. Bumble and Snug reading
    04:07
    Bumble and Snug reading
  17. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
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