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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. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  9. Brian’s writing and favourite books
    04:33
    Brian’s writing and favourite books
  10. Drawing Bugbops
    10:18
    Drawing Bugbops
  11. Box Yourself
    03:44
    Box Yourself
  12. Working in Comics
    01:09
    Working in Comics
  13. Poetry is everywhere
    14:55
    Poetry is everywhere
  14. Sue's presentation
    11:34
    Sue's presentation
  15. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  16. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  17. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
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