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The World of the Crossing
Manjeet explains the origins of her novel in verse, The Crossing.
  1. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Noi and his family
    03:19
    Noi and his family
  10. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  11. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  12. A Dog with Nice Ears
    07:10
    A Dog with Nice Ears
  13. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  14. Questions
    04:03
    Questions
  15. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  16. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  17. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  18. Scrapbooks and plans
    05:43
    Scrapbooks and plans
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