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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. Phil’s presentation
    21:56
    Phil’s presentation
  9. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  10. Draw Along
    10:16
    Draw Along
  11. Cardboard Cowboys reading
    05:01
    Cardboard Cowboys reading
  12. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  13. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  14. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  15. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
  16. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  17. What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
    04:19
    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
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