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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. Truth and Lies
    13:33
    Truth and Lies
  9. The Undefeated
    01:19
    The Undefeated
  10. A monster quiz
    08:19
    A monster quiz
  11. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  12. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  13. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  14. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  15. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
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    01:29
    Dogs in space
  17. Ideas
    03:35
    Ideas
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