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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 does Ross feel about writing and completing books?
    07:11
    How does Ross feel about writing and completing books?
  9. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  10. What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
    01:13
    What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
  11. Drawing Fruit and Veg
    04:16
    Drawing Fruit and Veg
  12. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  13. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  14. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  15. Introducing Sav Akyuz
    01:45
    Introducing Sav Akyuz
  16. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  17. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
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