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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
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    Translating into Gaelic
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    Discovering New Words
  7. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
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    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  9. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
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    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  11. Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
    05:44
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  12. Phil’s characters
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    Phil’s characters
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  14. Keep going!
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    Keep going!
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    05:32
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  17. Beginnings
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