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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 power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
  9. Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
    03:47
    Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
  10. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
  11. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  12. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  13. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  14. Finding the bear
    01:06
    Finding the bear
  15. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  16. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  17. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
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