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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
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    How Catherine works
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    Dogs in space
  10. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  11. The Crackledawn Dragon
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    The Crackledawn Dragon
  12. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
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    Orion Lost reading
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    02:45
    Poet recommendations
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    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  17. Questions from schools
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