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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. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  9. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  10. The power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
  11. Konnie’s Favourite Character
    00:58
    Konnie’s Favourite Character
  12. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  13. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  14. School days
    03:57
    School days
  15. Making the change
    03:33
    Making the change
  16. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
  17. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
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