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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. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  9. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  10. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
  11. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  12. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  13. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  14. Process of illustration and writing
    01:40
    Process of illustration and writing
  15. A reading from Elizabeth
    02:18
    A reading from Elizabeth
  16. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  17. How did you learn to draw?
    00:36
    How did you learn to draw?
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