{"podcast":{"title":"IFLScience - We Have Questions","slug":"iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311","podcast_index_feed_id":7025311,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/iflsciencewehavequestions/feed.xml","website_url":"https://iflsciencewehavequestions.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/19407042/69161_IFLS_We_Have_Questions_Podcast_Logo_OFFICIAL-02_2000x2000_yh8rrc.jpg","author":"iflsciencewehavequestions","episode_count":24,"summary":"Join IFLScience as we explore the questions nobody thought to ask but everyone wants the answers to. Get the behind-the-scenes conversations from CURIOUS magazine’s We Have Questions interviews, as we hunt down the experts to answer some of science’s stranger questions.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311"},"episode":{"title":"Can You Learn To Roll Your Rs? | IFLScience We Have Questions","slug":"can-you-learn-to-roll-your-rs-iflscience-we-have-questions","published_at":"2026-04-20T08:25:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311/can-you-learn-to-roll-your-rs-iflscience-we-have-questions","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311","url":"https://iflsciencewehavequestions.podbean.com/e/can-you-learn-to-roll-your-rs-iflscience-we-have-questions/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/v9x4iuus39yhdehm/WHQ-RollingRs_Final.mp3","summary":"My name is Laura, and I have a confession to make: I cannot roll my Rs. Now, as a native speaker of English, you might not think this would majorly impact my life. But I’ve also been a student of Spanish since the age of 12, and the rolled R sound? Well, it comes up a lot.After all these years, I’d basically written off my chances of learning to produce this elusive sound, but a chance conversation fanned the flames of curiosity once again. So, I spoke to Dr Helen Nuttall, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience and head of the Neuroscience of Speech and Action Lab at Lancaster University, to talk all things speech production – and just maybe, keep my dreams of Spanish mastery alive.","meta_description":"My name is Laura, and I have a confession to make: I cannot roll my Rs. Now, as a native speaker of English, you might not think this would majorly impact…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2117,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311/episodes/can-you-learn-to-roll-your-rs-iflscience-we-have-questions/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311/can-you-learn-to-roll-your-rs-iflscience-we-have-questions.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}