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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. Fan fiction of your life!
    01:05
    Fan fiction of your life!
  9. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  10. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  11. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  12. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
  13. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  14. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  15. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  16. Introducing Wain
    00:21
    Introducing Wain
  17. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
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