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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. The Undefeated
    01:19
    The Undefeated
  9. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  10. Ideas
    03:35
    Ideas
  11. Three pointers for writers
    01:10
    Three pointers for writers
  12. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  13. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  14. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
  15. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  16. Reading from Race to the Frozen North
    02:32
    Reading from Race to the Frozen North
  17. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
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