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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. A reading from Elizabeth
    02:18
    A reading from Elizabeth
  9. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  10. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  11. Konnie’s Favourite Character
    00:58
    Konnie’s Favourite Character
  12. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  13. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  14. Inspiration
    02:14
    Inspiration
  15. Brian’s writing and favourite books
    04:33
    Brian’s writing and favourite books
  16. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  17. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
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