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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. Drawing Bugbops
    10:18
    Drawing Bugbops
  9. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  10. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
  11. Pets
    00:55
    Pets
  12. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  13. School Questions
    08:45
    School Questions
  14. Wishes
    01:04
    Wishes
  15. Hallowe'en in Scotland
    06:14
    Hallowe'en in Scotland
  16. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
  17. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
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