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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. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  9. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  10. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  11. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  12. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  13. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
  14. This is a democracy
    00:39
    This is a democracy
  15. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  16. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  17. Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
    06:17
    Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
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