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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. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  9. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  10. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
  11. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
  12. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  13. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  14. The Undefeated
    01:19
    The Undefeated
  15. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  16. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  17. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
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