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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. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  9. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  10. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
  11. Process of illustration and writing
    01:40
    Process of illustration and writing
  12. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  13. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  14. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for books
  15. The World of the Wolf Queen
    04:14
    The World of the Wolf Queen
  16. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  17. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
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