[General] Is she a native speaker?

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teechar

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She's not far off, though.
 

jutfrank

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No, she isn't.
 

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She is fluent and her English pronunciation is very good, but she is not a native speaker.
 

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Her English flows well and she's easy to understand but she clearly has a non-native accent.
 

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I swear this is dubbed or lip-synced. There are several cases where the audio doesn't quite line up with her mouth movements. Plus the audio sounds like it was recorded in a sound booth or something, as opposed to live audio during the video.

It's a really good job, but not quite perfect alignment. At the very least, she's gone and dubbed over her own video.

I thought maybe some of the visual effects might have resulted in the audio getting slightly out of sync, but it sounds odd from the start before any of the fade/cutaway effects start.
 

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I swear this is dubbed or lip-synced. There are several cases where the audio doesn't quite line up with her mouth movements. Plus the audio sounds like it was recorded in a sound booth or something, as opposed to live audio during the video.

I watched one of her lessons and it begins with a man's voice, which I think is computer-generated from a text reader.
 
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