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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. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
  9. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  10. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  11. Phil’s presentation
    21:56
    Phil’s presentation
  12. Keeping Up With Michael
    01:39
    Keeping Up With Michael
  13. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  14. Pets
    00:55
    Pets
  15. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  16. Inspired by travelling
    14:41
    Inspired by travelling
  17. Three pointers for writers
    01:10
    Three pointers for writers
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