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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. What is the Nowhere Emporium?
    00:45
    What is the Nowhere Emporium?
  9. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  10. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  11. Hercules Song
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    Hercules Song
  12. Desert island books
    02:27
    Desert island books
  13. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  14. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
  15. Working in Comics
    01:09
    Working in Comics
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    01:45
    Introducing Sav Akyuz
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