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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. Creating a Poem
    08:58
    Creating a Poem
  9. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  10. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  11. Boogie Woogie Buggy
    01:41
    Boogie Woogie Buggy
  12. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
  13. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  14. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  15. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
  16. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
  17. This is a democracy
    00:39
    This is a democracy
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