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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. Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
    05:18
    Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
  9. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  10. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  11. Where The Heart Should Be
    06:14
    Where The Heart Should Be
  12. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  13. Scottish words and questions from schools
    08:09
    Scottish words and questions from schools
  14. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
  15. Boogie Woogie Buggy
    01:41
    Boogie Woogie Buggy
  16. Going around gardens!
    03:12
    Going around gardens!
  17. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
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