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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. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  9. Don't Kvetch
    01:55
    Don't Kvetch
  10. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  11. Myths and Monsters
    11:48
    Myths and Monsters
  12. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  13. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  14. Questions from pupils
    02:50
    Questions from pupils
  15. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  16. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
  17. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
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