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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. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  9. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  10. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
  11. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  12. Twitch reading
    05:36
    Twitch reading
  13. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
  14. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  15. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
  16. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  17. Going around gardens!
    03:12
    Going around gardens!
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