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!
- Enda Kenny: Response to Cloyne Report, 2011
- Hugh Gallagher: College Application Essay
- David Cameron: Tribute to Queen Elizabeth, March 2012
- Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution (2010)
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator: 1940
- John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country…
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Acceptance Speech, Oxford, June 2012