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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 and Answers
    06:15
    Questions and Answers
  9. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  10. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
  11. Writing historical fiction
    03:58
    Writing historical fiction
  12. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  13. A reading from Elizabeth
    02:18
    A reading from Elizabeth
  14. Chae is Dr Who
    05:39
    Chae is Dr Who
  15. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  16. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  17. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
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