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: Dublin 2011
- Kelly McDonald: ‘The Girl in the Café’, 2005
- Admiral William H. McRaven: Commencement Address, University of Texas at Austin, 2014
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Margaret Thatcher: “No, No, No!” (1990)
- Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: 1994 Democratic Party Convention
- Princess Diana: Headway Lunch, 1993
- John F. Kennedy: We Choose to go to the Moon
- Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator: 1940