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!
- John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country…
- Barack Obama: 2nd Inauguration Ceremony, January 2013
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Margaret Thatcher: “No, No, No!” (1990)
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)
- Barack Obama: Cairo, June 2009
- Jack Nicholson: Why can’t we all just get along? 1996: ‘Mars Attacks’
- Robin Williams: ‘Dead Poets Society’: Carpe Diem, 1989
- David Cameron: Acceptance speech, 2010
- Mitt Romney: Republican Convention Speech, August 2012