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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. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
  9. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  10. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  11. Toxic Relationships
    04:42
    Toxic Relationships
  12. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  13. Studio questions
    03:22
    Studio questions
  14. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  15. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  16. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  17. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
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