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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. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  9. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  10. Desert island books
    02:27
    Desert island books
  11. D is for Dialogue
    03:04
    D is for Dialogue
  12. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  13. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
  14. Reading from Race to the Frozen North
    02:32
    Reading from Race to the Frozen North
  15. Slugs and Brain Pâté
    11:48
    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  16. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  17. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
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