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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. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  9. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  10. Three pointers for writers
    01:10
    Three pointers for writers
  11. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  12. Scrapbooks and plans
    05:43
    Scrapbooks and plans
  13. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  14. Studio questions
    02:06
    Studio questions
  15. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  16. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  17. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
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