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Taking Up Boxing
Nikesh takes up boxing to help him deal with difficult situations.
  1. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  10. Characters and Themes
    04:51
    Characters and Themes
  11. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  12. Reluctant reader to avid writer
    08:03
    Reluctant reader to avid writer
  13. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  14. Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
    04:28
    Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
  15. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  16. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  17. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  18. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
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