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: Cairo, June 2009
- Martin Luther King: “I have a dream” 1963
- Michael Douglas: “Greed is Good” (‘Wall Street’, 1987)
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- Jack Nicholson: Why can’t we all just get along? 1996: ‘Mars Attacks’
- John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country…
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Martin Sheen: Find Something Worth Fighting For (2010)
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009