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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. Themes of The Infinite
    01:29
    Themes of The Infinite
  9. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  10. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
  11. Studio questions
    02:06
    Studio questions
  12. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  13. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  14. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  15. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
  16. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  17. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
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