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: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Rita Connolly: I Arise Today
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”
- Jawaharlal Nehru: “India will awake” 1947
- Benjamin Carson, National Prayer Breakfast, 2013
- Al Pacino: ‘Any Given Sunday’ (1999)
- Austin Powers: Tell us about your childhood
- Jill Bolte Taylor: A stroke of insight
- David Cameron: Tribute to Queen Elizabeth, March 2012
- Enda Kenny, Magdalene Laundry Apology, February 2013