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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. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  9. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  10. S is for Scots
    03:30
    S is for Scots
  11. How to Draw Granville's Head
    04:23
    How to Draw Granville's Head
  12. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  13. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  14. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  15. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  16. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
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    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
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