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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. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
  9. A question about Charlie and Lola
    01:44
    A question about Charlie and Lola
  10. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  11. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  12. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  13. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  14. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  15. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  16. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  17. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
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