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How do you come up with names for your characters?
Arlo and Augustus are great names for characters, but how does Catherine dream them up?
  1. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
  10. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
  11. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  12. Who is Josh Bell?
    01:03
    Who is Josh Bell?
  13. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  14. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  15. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  16. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
  17. Questions from the audience
    09:53
    Questions from the audience
  18. Have a go!
    01:10
    Have a go!
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