Welcome to this site which features videos of well-known speeches alongside transcripts of the speeches. The site is for people who:
- enjoy listening to speeches
- want inspiration or ideas
- learn English and want to see exact transcripts
- want to know more about our recent history,
- are addicted to Youtube
- want an easy place to find out if someone really said something!
Let’s start!
- Larry Page: University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- Groucho Marx: “Duck Soup” (1933)
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)
- Corazon Aquino: Address to Joint Session of US Congress, September 1986
- Bono: Commencement Address, Penn State
- Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigms in Education
- Kelly McDonald: ‘The Girl in the Café’, 2005
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, Pretoria, 1994