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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. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  9. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  10. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  11. Writing historical fiction
    03:58
    Writing historical fiction
  12. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  13. More questions for Sav
    02:00
    More questions for Sav
  14. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  15. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  16. Chocolate Cake
    07:56
    Chocolate Cake
  17. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
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