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!
- Martin Luther King: “I have a dream” 1963
- Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: 1994 Democratic Party Convention
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- Mitt Romney: Republican Convention Speech, August 2012
- Barack Obama: Democratic Convention speech, September 2012
- Bill Cosby: Carnegie Mellon commencement ceremony, 2007
- Keith Barry: Brain Magic
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Davos (January 2011)