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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. Scrapbooks and plans
    05:43
    Scrapbooks and plans
  9. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  10. School Questions
    05:51
    School Questions
  11. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
  12. Writing historical fiction
    03:58
    Writing historical fiction
  13. Poetry is everywhere
    14:55
    Poetry is everywhere
  14. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  15. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  16. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  17. Who is Josh Bell?
    01:03
    Who is Josh Bell?
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