Pratique du Shadowing: I was wrong about AI replacing VAs. Here's what I actually think in 2026. - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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If you've watched my channel for a while, you've heard me say that AI will never replace virtual assistants and I need to update that because AI is replacing a certain kind of virtual assistant, and over the next few minutes, I'm gonna show you exactly which kind is getting replaced and how to make sure that you are not the one on the chopping block.

Let's not sugarcoat it.

If your entire service is, "I answer emails, I schedule meetings, and I copy data from one place to another," AI tools can already do most of that cheaper, faster, and at 3:00 in the morning without complaining.

A client can ask AI to draft 20 emails in the same time that it takes me to write a Slack message, okay?

That's just the reality now.

So the question isn't, will AI take VA tasks?

It already has.

The real question is, what can't it take?

Now, most people's instinct is to say, "Okay, I need to learn more skills, more tools, get more certification," because that feels more productive.

But that is actually backwards because you are competing with AI on AI's home turf.

You will literally never out-task a machine.

Let me tell you what happened with one of my own clients as I became more AI forward.

She didn't pay me to schedule her calendar.

I mean, okay, I mean, technically, she paid me to schedule her calendar, but what she was actually paying me for was every morning I would look at her week and say, "Hey, you've booked yourself into three back-to-back pitch meetings the day after a red-eye flight.

I'm moving two of them." No AI tool did that, and it's not because AI can't move meetings, but it's because AI didn't know her.

Like, it literally did not know that she was useless after red-eyes, and it did not care whether her pitches on that Thursday went well or not.

And I want you to zoom in here, please, 'cause this is important.

AI replaces task doers.

It promotes problem solvers.

So the VA who says to their client, "Just tell me what to do," is competing with a $20 a month subscription service.

But the VA who says, "Here's what I've noticed, and here's what I'm gonna do about it," is competing with nobody, okay?

Because judgment, context, and actually caring about the a- outcome are not things on AI's featured list.

So how do you become that second kind of VA? We have to look at just three shifts.

It's just three things, guys.

Shift number one, I want you to start marketing and selling outcomes, not just hours.

So saying something like, "I manage your inbox," is a task, but reframing it as, "You will never miss an email again, and your reply time in email will drop to under one hour a day," is an outcome.

It's the same work, but it's a completely different value because you're promising that your client will be more in the know with less work.

Shift two, become the person who runs the AI.

Now, here's the plot twist that nobody talks about.

Business owners are drowning in AI tools that they do not have time to learn.

So the VA who can actually say, "I'm gonna set up your AI workflows, I'm gonna check the work," you just turned the possibility of being replaced into your biggest selling point, okay?

Because AI needs somebody who will tinker around with the inputs and make sure that the outputs are actually good.

So congratulations, because you just became that manager And shift number three, build the relationships that AI just can't copy.

Okay? So every month when you work with a client, you accumulate stories and context.

You get to know things like their work and their life preferences, their pet peeves, or you learn about the vendor they work with who is always late.

A new AI tool starts from zero every single time it gets booted up.

But that's not you.

You're starting with a lifetime of history and context.

And right now, if you were just starting as a VA, I'd imagine that you might be thinking, "Great, the bar to entry just got so much higher." But it actually didn't get higher, it got clearer.

You do not need to learn 50 tools and become a tech genius.

You just need to bring the one thing that you already have, which is human judgment, and pair it with a handful of tools that you know how to do really well.

I genuinely feel that starting a b- a VA business right now in the AI era is a huge advantage, 'cause you get to build your business in a new way from day one, while established VAs like myself have had to unlearn a lot of the old ways of doing things.

So yes, AI will replace some assistants, and it will replace a version of this job that was already underpaid, undervalued, and honestly, the copy and paste kinda nonsense that was pretty miserable.

So to that I say good riddance, because the version that is left behind, where you are a trusted partner in someone's business, where you're charging rates that reflect your good judgment, not just the speed in which you get tasks done, this is the virtual assistant business that we've all been fighting for.

So congratulations, friend.

You're here at the right time of history.

Now, if you're looking for a clear starting point, like baseline planning, no 50 tool tutorials, check out my free VA bootcamp.

It's a three-day bootcamp which is free.

It's gonna walk you through just the baseline, step by step, what you can expect as a virtual assistant.

And if you are past the free stuff and you're ready for a real plan, my VA Ready program is a course that's built exactly for this moment.

It's the confidence and the clarity program that you need before you launch your business.

And if you are already confident, you are ready to launch and scale, then my VA Business Blueprint helps you build your business in the new AI world step by step.

Now, this program is relaunching in August 1st, 2026, so be on the lookout for some more announcements.

Or if you'd like to get on my waiting list for early access, I'm gonna link to that below as well.

Next, I recommend that you watch my video on how VAs are actually landing their first clients nowadays, and spoiler, it is not cold outreach.

So that's popping up somewhere here above me, and I will see you in that video

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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « I was wrong about AI replacing VAs. Here's what I actually think in 2026 ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : tool, client, task, assistant, virtual. Cette vidéo contient 56 phrases et 1122 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 6:14. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 180 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 83 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
baseline nom	/ˈbeɪslaɪn/	référence
accumulate verbe	/əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/	accumuler
relaunch verbe		relancer
solver nom		résolveur
underpaid adjectif		sous-payé, mal payé
unlearn verbe	/ʌnˈlɝn/	désapprendre
workflow nom	/ˈwɝkfloʊ/	workflow
inbox nom	/ˈɪnbɑks/	boîte de réception
spoiler nom	/ˈspɔɪ.lɚ/	spoiler, divulgâchage
lookout nom	/ˈlʊkaʊt/	poste de guet
outreach nom	/ˈaʊtɹiːtʃ/	atteinte
drown verbe	/dɹaʊn/	se noyer
backward adjectif	/ˈbækwɚd/	en arrière
turf nom	/tɝf/	gazon
chop verbe	/t͡ʃɑp/	hacher, découper

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
check out verbe		mater, regarder
leave behind verbe		abandonner
pop up verbe		se pointer
set up verbe	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	mettre en place, installer

Des phrases à répéter

Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :

The real question is, what can't it take?
She didn't pay me to schedule her calendar.
You're starting with a lifetime of history and context.
You're here at the right time of history.

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

Structure	Dans la vidéo
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant	you've watched · you've booked · I've noticed
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose	person who runs · somebody who will · have, which is
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	being replaced · is left

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 33 contractions et formes réduites, comme gonna, I'm, you're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « sh » et « zh »: sugarcoat /ˈʃʊɡɚˌkoʊt/, certification /ˌsɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, undervalue /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/, certification /ˌsɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: outreach /ˈaʊtɹiːtʃ/, chop /t͡ʃɑp/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: riddance /ˈɹɪdn̩(t)s/, undervalue /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/, outreach /ˈaʊtɹiːtʃ/, drown /dɹaʊn/, tutorial /ˌtjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/

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Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.

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