About

The I Can Eat Glass Project was created by myself, Paul Sobczak. All of the recordings were made with someone who I have met that speaks a "foreign" language, and each recording has also been attributed with the location in which it was made. Thank you to everyone who has been involved in the creation of this project so far.



This project is an ongoing one, the mentality being that when I meet someone new who has a different mother tongue I add them to the project, and thus this site will grow to add more languages over time. I understand with a tool like the internet I could get recordings in almost every language almost overnight, but that is not what the goal of this project is. By approaching the project they way I am, each recording has a personal story, and a physical place associated with it, something that is missing if I use the internet. If you would like to be involved in this project please meet me in real life, I will be more than glad to include you.

Inspiration for this project came from Ethan Mollick's I Can Eat Glass Project, NYC's Sound Seeker, and Derek Holzer's wonderful site Sound Transit.

This site was created using Google Maps API, Google Maps code from Mike Williams, Html template from Pete Ottery, and PHP help from Tizag.