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!
- Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” New Hampshire, 2008
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”
- Corazon Aquino: Address to Joint Session of US Congress, September 1986
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, Pretoria, 1994
- Jack Nicholson: Why can’t we all just get along? 1996: ‘Mars Attacks’
- Robin Williams: ‘Dead Poets Society’: Carpe Diem, 1989
- Robert G. Menzies, Declaration of War, 1939
- iPad Introduction, 2010 (8 mins)
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954