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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. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  9. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  10. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  11. Three pointers for writers
    01:10
    Three pointers for writers
  12. Studio questions
    03:22
    Studio questions
  13. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
  14. School days and writing
    07:07
    School days and writing
  15. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  16. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  17. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
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