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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 from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  9. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  10. How to Draw Granville's Head
    04:23
    How to Draw Granville's Head
  11. Box Yourself
    03:44
    Box Yourself
  12. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  13. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  14. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  15. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  16. A Dog with Nice Ears
    07:10
    A Dog with Nice Ears
  17. Newton Farm Questions
    05:46
    Newton Farm Questions
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