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!
- Bill Gates: Harvard, June 2007
- Ken Robinson: TED, 2006
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- Martin Luther King: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- Kelly McDonald: ‘The Girl in the Café’, 2005
- Lady Gaga: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “Prime Rib” Maine 2010
- Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator: 1940
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- Corazon Aquino: Address to Joint Session of US Congress, September 1986
- Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” New Hampshire, 2008