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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. Social media and influencers
    03:10
    Social media and influencers
  9. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
  10. Process of illustration and writing
    01:40
    Process of illustration and writing
  11. The Undefeated
    01:19
    The Undefeated
  12. Relationship Behaviour
    01:57
    Relationship Behaviour
  13. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  14. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  15. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  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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