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!
- Michael Douglas: “Greed is Good” (‘Wall Street’, 1987)
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, June 2012
- Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
- Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigms in Education
- Kelly McDonald: ‘The Girl in the Café’, 2005
- Al Pacino: ‘Any Given Sunday’ (1999)
- Hugh Gallagher: College Application Essay
- King George VI: September 3, 1939 (‘The King’s Speech’)
- Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh (1984)
- Robin Williams: ‘Dead Poets Society’: Carpe Diem, 1989