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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. Authors Live with Ross Sayers
    31:15
    Authors Live with Ross Sayers
  9. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  10. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  11. Scottish words and questions from schools
    08:09
    Scottish words and questions from schools
  12. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  13. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  14. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  15. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  16. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  17. Questions from pupils
    02:50
    Questions from pupils
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