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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
    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 Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  9. Diving Poem
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    Diving Poem
  10. My Heart
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    My Heart
  11. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  12. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
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    A Dog with Nice Ears
  14. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
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    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
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    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
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