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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. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  9. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
  10. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  11. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  12. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
  13. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  14. Prez
    01:14
    Prez
  15. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  16. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  17. What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
    01:13
    What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
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