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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. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  9. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  10. Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
    02:48
    Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
  11. How did you learn to draw?
    00:36
    How did you learn to draw?
  12. Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
    08:13
    Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
  13. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  14. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  15. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  16. Hallowe'en in Scotland
    06:14
    Hallowe'en in Scotland
  17. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
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