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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. Inspired by travelling
    14:41
    Inspired by travelling
  9. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  10. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  11. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
  12. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  13. There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
    03:53
    There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
  14. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  15. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  16. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  17. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
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