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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. Social media and influencers
    03:10
    Social media and influencers
  9. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  10. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  11. No Breathing in Class
    04:08
    No Breathing in Class
  12. Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
    05:18
    Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
  13. School days and writing
    07:07
    School days and writing
  14. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  15. Introducing Sav Akyuz
    01:45
    Introducing Sav Akyuz
  16. More questions for Sav
    02:00
    More questions for Sav
  17. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
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