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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. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  9. Prez
    01:14
    Prez
  10. S is for Scots
    03:30
    S is for Scots
  11. Truth and Lies
    13:33
    Truth and Lies
  12. Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
    04:53
    Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
  13. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  14. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  15. Newton Farm Questions
    05:46
    Newton Farm Questions
  16. More questions for Sav
    02:00
    More questions for Sav
  17. What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
    04:19
    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
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