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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. Social media and influencers
    03:10
    Social media and influencers
  9. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  10. Wizards of Once reading
    04:24
    Wizards of Once reading
  11. Introducing Wain
    00:21
    Introducing Wain
  12. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  13. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
  14. School Questions
    08:45
    School Questions
  15. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
  16. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  17. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
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