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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. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  9. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  10. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  11. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
  12. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  13. Chae is Dr Who
    05:39
    Chae is Dr Who
  14. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
  15. Rachel’s books and inspirations
    06:29
    Rachel’s books and inspirations
  16. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  17. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
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