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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. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
  9. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  10. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  11. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  12. Questions from West Calder High School
    05:42
    Questions from West Calder High School
  13. School days
    03:57
    School days
  14. Dogs in space
    01:29
    Dogs in space
  15. Twitch reading
    05:36
    Twitch reading
  16. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
  17. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
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