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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. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
  9. Comics
    04:26
    Comics
  10. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  11. 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?
  12. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  13. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  14. Process of illustration and writing
    01:40
    Process of illustration and writing
  15. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  16. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for books
  17. Inspiration
    02:14
    Inspiration
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