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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. Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
    02:48
    Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
  9. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  10. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  11. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  12. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  13. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
  14. Room on the Broom in Scots
    08:13
    Room on the Broom in Scots
  15. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
  16. Dealing with Racists
    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
  17. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
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