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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 of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  9. Dealing with Racists
    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
  10. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  11. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  12. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  13. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  14. D is for Dialogue
    03:04
    D is for Dialogue
  15. Draw Goldy the Gecko
    04:43
    Draw Goldy the Gecko
  16. The main characters
    03:46
    The main characters
  17. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
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