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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. The power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
  9. Hand on the Bridge
    02:28
    Hand on the Bridge
  10. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  11. How does Ross feel about writing and completing books?
    07:11
    How does Ross feel about writing and completing books?
  12. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  13. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  14. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  15. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  16. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  17. Studio questions
    02:06
    Studio questions
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