쉐도잉 연습: I was wrong about AI replacing VAs. Here's what I actually think in 2026. - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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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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이 B2 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “I was wrong about AI replacing VAs. Here's what I actually think in 2026”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: tool, client, task, assistant, virtual. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 56개와 단어 1122개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 6:14입니다. 화자는 분당 약 180단어로 빠르게 말하므로 연음과 약하게 발음되는 소리가 많습니다. 단어의 83%가 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속합니다. 나머지는 연습 전에 미리 확인해 두세요.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어	발음	뜻
accumulate 동사	/əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/	모으다, 축적하다
workflow 명사	/ˈwɝkfloʊ/	워크플로
spoiler 명사	/ˈspɔɪ.lɚ/	스포일러, 스포
drown 동사	/dɹaʊn/	물에 뼈져 죽다
chop 동사	/t͡ʃɑp/	썰다
vendor 명사	/ˈvɛn.dɚ/	판매인, 판매자
tutorial 명사	/ˌtjuːˈtɔːɹɪəl/	지도, 지침
instinct 명사	/ˈɪn.stɪŋkt/	본능
pasta 명사	/ˈpɑ.stə/	파스타
certification 명사	/ˌsɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/	증명, 검정
subscription 명사	/səbˈskɹɪpʃən/	구독
miserable 형용사	/ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/	불행한 상황
technically 부사	/ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/	이론상, 이론적(理論的)으로
preference 명사	/ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/	선택
nowadays 부사	/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/	요즘

따라 말해 볼 만한 문장

영상에 나오는 짧고 완결된 문장으로, 일상 대화에서 그대로 쓸 수 있습니다:

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.

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화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형	영상 속 표현
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때	you've watched · you've booked · I've noticed
관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보	person who runs · somebody who will · have, which is
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점	being replaced · is left

주의할 발음

화자는 gonna, I'm, you're 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 33번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

“sh”와 “zh” 소리: sugarcoat /ˈʃʊɡɚˌkoʊt/, certification /ˌsɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/
긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, undervalue /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/, certification /ˌsɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

/f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: workflow /ˈwɝkfloʊ/, turf /tɝf/, certification /ˌsɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, preference /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/, handful /ˈhæn(d)fʊl/
/v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: undervalue /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/, vendor /ˈvɛn.dɚ/
/z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: zoom /zuːm/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/

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자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, accumulate, workflow, spoiler 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.

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