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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. One frame
    01:29
    One frame
  9. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  10. School days and writing
    07:07
    School days and writing
  11. Draw the Light Ship
    05:16
    Draw the Light Ship
  12. Names and Questions
    07:57
    Names and Questions
  13. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  14. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
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    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
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    Where monsters come from
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    Question and Answer - Part 2
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