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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. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  9. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  10. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  11. The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
    03:48
    The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
  12. Inspired by travelling
    14:41
    Inspired by travelling
  13. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
  14. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  15. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  16. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  17. Comics
    04:26
    Comics
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