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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. Prez
    01:14
    Prez
  9. Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
    02:48
    Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
  10. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  11. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  12. Pets
    00:55
    Pets
  13. Truth and Lies
    13:33
    Truth and Lies
  14. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  15. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  16. Y is for Young Adult
    03:43
    Y is for Young Adult
  17. Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
    03:40
    Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
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