Shadowing Practice: AT NIGHT 2025 Kia K4 GT-Line TURBO -- Headlights, Interior Screens & Night Visibility Test - Learn English Speaking with Video

When you walk up to the vehicle with the key, it has the full proximity system.

And when it senses the key, it'll just turn on that little light on the handle.

When you hit the unlock button, it'll go ahead and flash the lights and then turn on all the exterior lights.

Headlights, taillights, and all that stuff.

We still have that little light on the handle as well.

The headlight switch is not illuminated, but when you start turning it, it'll show up here on the screen what's going on.

So when you put it on a complete off position, you still have some exterior lights on.

So it's basically the parking lights there in the front.

So let's go ahead and turn on the parking lights.

The parking lights are these amber lights, and they're basically kind of like for looks as well as function.

So they're kind of like an accent light, and they're not overly bright, but they are amber in color.

And they extend from the size to the front and everything.

So you could definitely see them from pretty much any direction here on the front.

They also serve as a side marker as well.

Even though it has this little dedicated one, it also, the actual light above it is a little bit brighter, so it's actually more useful.

There's a red side marker here in the back.

And once again, the taillights are functional, but they're also stylish.

They're kind of accent lights.

And back here, it's nice deep red LEDs.

Very impressive.

Look a little bit blown out on camera, but they're nice deep red.

and then the tag light is now on.

It illuminates the ground a little bit behind the vehicle.

The turn signal here in the front is amber in color.

It just basically takes that same light and is just much brighter, flashes it, but it does maintain the light between flashes.

Looking pretty good.

And once again, it's that full accent light, so basically we can see it from pretty much any direction here in the front.

There's an amber side marker turn signal indicator here on the side mirror.

It's visible from the front, the side, and the back.

And basically, the turn signal is red in color, and it just kind of fills in this little corner right here.

And once again, kind of like a stylish turn signal as well.

Pretty cool looking.

There's also a third brake light at the bottom of the glass, in the rear glass.

And the reverse lights are integrated into the bottom center of the vehicle.

So let's turn on the low beams.

there's also a fog light you see

that kind of kind of fills in a little bit better

doesn't really work in the same way as a normal fog

light i kind of like accents the entire low beams here

but uh but i'm going to turn it off for a second just

so you can see what's going on

so it's this one single uh kind of like elongated projector lens right here on the outer side

so can see I cover that up then there's no other lights here that are illuminated that at this point

let's go back here

and the cutoff is about pretty low about a little bit over two feet off the ground

so it's a low cutoff so now let's turn on

that fog light and then that is right in here

so it's right in this middle part

so you can see the outer outer lenses here then you had this lens right here that's illuminated

and that's kind of like kind of a replacement for a

fall light now let's go to the high beams there there's the low beams there's the high beams

and the high beams turn off that fog light which is pretty typical

but you notice this little section right here this little section

is now all illuminated this is a whole bunch of different lenses uh

that adds up for your high beams so it's an additional light

that turns on and uh but yeah looking pretty cool from this angle

but of course we'll have to see how it performs on a dark road Trunk light,

pretty much poor light.

Just has a single halogen bulb there black interior it's been a pain using this vehicle

because it's so dark here in the trunk

so just not good the inside of the back door there's no puddle light

or anything there's just a single light and

that is for the power window switch

and the interior lights here are pretty good

so it's right there in the center those two lights they illuminate the seats the floor pretty much everything really well.

There's also two USB ports there that are backlit.

Front door, once again, no pedal lights, no approach lights, nothing like that.

We do have this mood lighting or accent lighting here on the door.

I have it set to red right now.

And then we have the backlit buttons here on the door, no pocket lights or anything.

There's no floorboard illumination.

And there is the light here for the front, aiming mostly in the lap area.

So now I have the door open, and you can see what the interior lights look like.

So they're mostly in this area here, so you can read something or look at something.

And they're not shining in my face at all as a driver.

Shut the door.

Alright, so now we have the backlit buttons and the ambient light, which looks pretty good.

The screens look excellent.

The camera system.

I'm going to put the camera system on it.

It looks good.

Very good.

High clarity even at night time.

The blind spot cameras here on the right and left look really good.

Once again, night time, day or night, no problem.

now there's a space for the um right here for your cell phone

and uh let me turn on the interior light

so you can see what i'm talking about uh

because you can't see it it's completely dark there uh this whole area is dark um

so you can see dark dark dark dark floorboards this compartment here is dark interior light does shine in there

so that's good

so you need to rely on the interior lights for all

this stuff glove compartment does have a light that's good

but the ambient lights you can see are not in the back they're only here in the front

and like i said i have it set to to red in color

so let's change the color so under the settings here i have the brightness turned up to 10.

You can adjust the brightness all the way down to zero if you want to turn off these lights

all the way up to 10.

And you have different colors here that you can customize.

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So the first one is Blue Flight, looking pretty good.

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And you have a Peaceful Florist.

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They all have funny names, or cool names actually, but you know, they have, it's not just green and blue.

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So that looks good, that green.

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And you have like a lavender.

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This one's called Dreamy Purple.

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violet cloud orange delight and that is golden insight refreshing sea live red

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urban sky polar white and then you can customize the color has this color wheel

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and you can kind of go around

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and let's see we don't have a pink so let's go to to like a hot pink. And then hit OK.

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So yeah, we got that.

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So yeah, we have a pretty good range here on this custom color.

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And go like a deep blue.

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Gotta hit OK.

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And now we can go with that.

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So once you customize a color, then when you choose this custom color, it'll automatically have that, the one that you chose,

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and then you can customize another one if you want.

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The rear view mirror is at manual day and night mode.

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And then you have these backlit buttons up here.

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And I'm glad that the interior lights button is backlit.

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Some vehicles don't have that.

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But you also have these individual lights, reading lights, for the driver and the passenger.

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And once again, it just shines right here and doesn't blind you.

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So whatever you're looking at, it eliminates that.

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Now if you don't want the interior lights to turn on when you open the door, you can turn this on.

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This is the off light or the off button here

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so you hit that and then

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when you open the door the interior lights will not turn on like you have a baby sleeping

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or something so the visor has a light

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but you have to turn it on manually

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and it kind of does shine in my face a little bit

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which i guess that's the intention for this light but um

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but yeah and if you accidentally leave it up on

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and you flip this up it'll automatically hit that button and turn it off it's kind of cool

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there's the headlight pattern on a fence there's the high beams there's low beams

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and there's the on and off for the all-weather light uh

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but you notice there's a little spot

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that lines up with the oncoming lane we'll see how

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that is how that works but um but yeah it's intentional that little shadow I really like the camera system.

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The thing about this vehicle for the price is just so many features.

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Just pretty much, it's like a loaded vehicle for half price.

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It's really impressive.

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Okay, so yeah, that shadow is lining up perfectly with the oncoming lane.

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Pretty much perfect.

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So let's go ahead and turn on those all weather lights or the fog lights.

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They do help out a lot.

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I mean I would be tempted to drive with those a lot.

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Even when it's not foggy or anything.

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Okay, so there's the low beams.

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They look pretty good.

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There's the all-weather lights, which makes it even better.

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And then now the high beams.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so we can see the trees in the distance.

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There's a slight patchiness on the road, but the distance appears to be fine.

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I can, yeah, okay, I can see the, yeah, the distance is good.

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Everything on the side of the road is illuminated.

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there's a little bit of that remnants of that shadow

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that I was talking about that's supposed to line up with the oncoming lane

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sometimes it gets in my lane even with the high beams on but it's not really a huge deal so yeah

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these are pretty good headlights

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can't believe the price of this vehicle I keep looking at the window sticker maybe I'm overlooking something but $31,000

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and this thing has everything and even really good headlights you know of course I would say that the

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the trunk light needs to be, needs better light in there, you need more than one light really two lights in there

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that are brighter would be ideal but as it is now it's just pretty much poor but yeah,

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low beams are good high beams are better but still that shadow see we're adding light and when we add light

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the high beams aren't enough to overcome that shadow with the low beams.

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I don't know if you can tell, there's like a shadow right on my lane, like, you know, 50 feet in front of the car.

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Now when I'm going this way, the shadow's on the other lane.

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So, yeah, i mean i think it's probably

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you know the the high beams do a good enough job i mean they're still good

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but you can still see that little shadow there it's not a big deal

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but you know with the high beams on you can definitely see everything the distance

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and the width and spread of the light and everything

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It's just it looks a little bit patchy with that low beam shadow basically.

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But yeah, these are pretty cool.

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Yeah, very impressed with the headlights.

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Especially in this price range.

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This vehicle has so much to offer in this price range.

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It's unbelievable.

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So yeah, I would say definitely above average headlights.

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For this price range, it's like really, really good, you know?

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That's the thing, they're really good headlights in general.

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But yeah, when you consider the price, you're like, wow.

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They just loaded everything in this vehicle. And selling it cheap.

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I don't know how they do it, but apparently they're able to do it.

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What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

Shadowing Practice: AT NIGHT 2025 Kia K4 GT-Line TURBO -- Headlights, Interior Screens & Night Visibility Test - Learn English Speaking with Video

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