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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. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  9. Social media and influencers
    03:10
    Social media and influencers
  10. Start with a face
    02:25
    Start with a face
  11. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  12. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  13. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  14. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  15. Box Yourself
    03:44
    Box Yourself
  16. Ideas
    03:35
    Ideas
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    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
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