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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. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  9. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  10. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  11. The story rollercoaster
    00:58
    The story rollercoaster
  12. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  13. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
  14. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  15. Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
    03:40
    Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
  16. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  17. Comics
    04:26
    Comics
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