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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. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  9. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  10. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  11. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
  12. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  13. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
  14. Scrapbooks and plans
    05:43
    Scrapbooks and plans
  15. Sue's early influences
    04:42
    Sue's early influences
  16. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  17. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
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