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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. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  9. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  10. Dealing with Racists
    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
  11. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  12. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  13. It Does Matter
    02:17
    It Does Matter
  14. Rachel’s books and inspirations
    06:29
    Rachel’s books and inspirations
  15. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  16. Drawing Bugbops
    10:18
    Drawing Bugbops
  17. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
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