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!
- Robin Williams: ‘Dead Poets Society’: Carpe Diem, 1989
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Lady Gaga: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “Prime Rib” Maine 2010
- Mary Schmich: Wear Sunscreen (1997)
- iPad Advertisement, 2011: “Love”
- iPad Introduction, 2010 (8 mins)
- Larry Page: University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- Robert G. Menzies, Declaration of War, 1939
- Prince Charles: June 2012: Your Majesty, Mummy