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!
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Acceptance Speech, Oxford, June 2012
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Winston Churchill: We will fight on the beaches
- Lupita Nyong’o: Best Supporting Actress, Oscars, 2014
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Davos (January 2011)
- Al Pacino: ‘Any Given Sunday’ (1999)
- King George VI: September 3, 1939 (‘The King’s Speech’)
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- Marianne Williamson: Our Deepest Fear. (‘Coach Carter,’ 2005)
- Queen Elizabeth II: Dublin, 2011