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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. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  9. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  10. Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
    04:53
    Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
  11. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  12. No Breathing in Class
    04:08
    No Breathing in Class
  13. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  14. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  15. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  16. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  17. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
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