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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.
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    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
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    Translating into Gaelic
  6. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  7. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
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    Weather and climate
  9. Feather reading
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    Feather reading
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    05:18
    Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
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    Writing the Twitchers
  12. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  13. Chris McQueer – reading
    03:07
    Chris McQueer – reading
  14. Tom on his illustrations
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    Tom on his illustrations
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    01:13
    What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
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    Reading from The Crossing
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