Essential Video Game Vocabulary Explained

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Learn English with Papa Teach Me


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Playing video games in English is a really fun  way to improve your speaking skills doesn't  
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matter if you make mistakes doesn't matter  if your grammar is bad you just have fun  
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but you do need good communication so today  let's learn how to play video games in English  
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today I'm playing "Animal Royale" it's basically  fortnite but with cute animals it's free to play  
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on Steam they don't sponsor me though so I don't  care if you download it and play it it is fun  
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though and I'll be playing with my friend Marina  you might know her as "@Mudazukuri" on social media
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- I'm an inventor. I make useless machines. For example: The machine that slaps your face with money  
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to get motivated. I made over 200 useless inventions so far!
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Let's kill some animals! Yeah let's kill some animals! I'm really excited  I'm excited too!
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Definitely give her a follow she's hilarious!
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The basics! In all games, the weapons are pretty much the same let's go through them
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This is what we'd call an AR that  stands for assault rifle but no one says that AR
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this guy is a pistol this guy is a shotgun SMG  sniper rocket launcher but everyone just calls it  
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an RPG and the things you put in those weapons are  called bullets you count those those are countable  
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one bullet two bullets the uncountable version  of this is ammo I'm out of ammo for example  
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so you both have a weapon but you need some  ammo how can you ask can you drop me some  
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ammo to drop someone something in video games  to give someone something usually you have to  
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drop it first so that is the question you need  to ask can you drop me some ammo can you drop me  
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a weapon can you drop me some health depending on  the game you're playing and remember I said this  
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"OUT OF AMMO!"
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"To be out of something" it means you don't have any left
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You're empty. You used it all.
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I'm out of ammo I have no more ammo
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she can't offer ammo, but she can offer a grenade! That's a grenade. And the short version in video games
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we say "nade" "I can drop you some nades?!"
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So you're both ready for a fight but then you see someone!  What can you say to your partner?
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Person!!
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Oh my God! Someone! Someone!
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You can just say "I see someone!"
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but if someone is actively fighting you, this is what you say:
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"There's someone on me" "I've got someone on me" or easier
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"Someone on me!"
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so if you think your partner  is in trouble the question to ask is
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"Is there someone on you?"
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to check if they're  okay to check they're not in a fight
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now usually if you're playing a team game you  don't kill someone instantly usually you just  
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KNOCK them or DOWN them! Those are verbs and the whole sentence
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I got the knock
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"I got the knock on her" "I got the knock on this guy"
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that means you didn't kill them they are just  in this state and probably their teammate is  
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still alive trying to save his teammate so yeah  "I got the knock on her" or "I downed her"
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"I downed that guy" notice that they could both be verbs  but in this case that one "KNOCK" can be a noun  
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"I got the knock" / "I got a knock on this person"  but like I said her teammate is near so maybe  
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he's gonna he is gonna...!!
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He is gonna save his teammate  depending on the game giving health or just
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*Holding hand over fallen teammate and miraculously they live again, like a sexy zombie!*
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to bring them back to life to resurrect them  we usually shorten "RESURRECT" to "Res" this can  
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be a verb like "I'm down please res me" or  it can be a noun "I'm getting the res!"  
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You could also use the verb revive mostly we  just use that as a verb resume revive me  
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when you win you get the W or  some people say the dub I don't  
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um I don't even say w i i just say we won that's  awesome but some people say w some people say dub  
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totally your choice I'm not here to tell you  how to have fun but if you lose you don't "GET"  
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the L no no no you "TAKE" the L I don't know why  it just sounds more insulting like "Ha take the  L!"
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and we also use this in real life sometimes  too if someone fails at something if someone  
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hurts themself for example in real life someone  might say yeah that's a big L but either way at  
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the end of the game say to your partner say to  your teammate GG or ggs and it means good game  
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again this also is used in real life sometimes  usually sarcastically when there was a conflict  
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or a fight and something funny happened for  example if you and your best friend like one girl  
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but that girl chooses another guy and she wants  neither of you you might say "GGs" to be sarcastic  
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I'm just saying you might hear this in real life  but maybe this is someone's first game maybe you  
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need to teach them how to play a game if you need  to tell someone to press a button to do something  
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that is press for a long time that's hold or hold  down this button and this that's tap and those are  
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the same words depending if you play on a PC with  a keyboard or a console with a controller so now  
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you've learned some new vocabulary it's time to  go and play video games to improve your English  
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okay let's go see if Marina and me can win this  thing and get the W or lose it and take the L  
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this is the first time to speak  English on YouTube
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Yeah it is! I haven't seen you speak English  in your videos!
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- Yeah! So yeah! - Ever
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- It makes me nervous - Well you don't need to be nervous, we're all friends here!
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- We're all good! - Yeah okay thank you!
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Let me invite you on this.
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I sent you an invite.
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You really like playing as the bear ?
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- Yeah, I like this bear - That's your favorite
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Yeah he's pretty dangerous
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Your outfit is like ...
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- I's pretty sexy! - Yeah very sexy! like "Akihabara"
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- How would you describe my sexy Fox? - "Moe"
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Cool. Is that cool? Is that like cool right now?
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It's cool or cute style/cutie style
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That sounds good okay I'm happy with "cute"
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- Where should we go? - Do you want to drop in the research labs?
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- Okay - Are we gonna kill some animals?
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- Yeah - It's weird saying that because I'm a  vegetarian but.
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What gun do you have ?
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uh I don't know it's... What is that?
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- You know the name I taught you the name!  - Shot ...shotgun?
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Yep that one's a shotgun
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Have you got a gun?
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- Not yet .Oh I see one! oh pistol! - Pistol!
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okay we're ready we're ready for yeah um violence
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oh there's someone here
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- No! Out of ammo! - No! You did it you saved me you saved me  
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What a legend! What an absolute legend you are!
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you saved my bacon
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Do you say anything like that in Japanese?
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if I want to say "You saved my life" I can say "You saved my bacon"
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"Saved my bacon"?
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Yeah I know it's weird but "you saved my bacon"
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let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go
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we can do it we can do it we  can get there oh we're here
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I can hear ...oh!
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Oh my God!
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No they got us! They got us! They got us, Marina
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- Which other games do you play? - Pokemon on Switch
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- What's it like on switch is it good? - The graphics are amazing 
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- Have you caught all of the Pokemon - oh do  you need ammo? - No... how do you say "I....  
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- "I'm good for ammo!"  - I'm good
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oh armor! I need that!
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I want this one! The armor!
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Oh you don't have any, I'm sorry! My bad! I'm very inconsiderate!  I'm sorry that was very rude
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No no no!
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oh
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- I'm Gonna Get You! - Thank you
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I'll get you up
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If one of us goes down
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You can say "Get me up" or "Can you get me up?"
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- "Get me up"? - Yeah!
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I found...
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oh my God I honestly I thought we had  that one I thought we were gonna win but  
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- I'm sorry I failed you - Yeah but only four people!
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This is true! We're pretty good!
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- Where shall we go? - Should we go to the Villas?
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- Okay - I feel like winners drop in the Villas
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There are so many people here
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no no no no no no no no
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You went in like such a hero!
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- Yeah I wanted to get revenge! - I know
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- Oh there's definitely someone there! - Oh someone there!
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oh my God
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no no no no
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we're so close I can't I can't aim  I'm so rubbish at aiming on this
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yeah me too
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oh sorry sorry oh
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I'm ruining our strategy
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no there's no strategy
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oh I heard someone to the right of us!
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Hiding!
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- Oh my God there's like 50 of them! - Oh my God!
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- I'm not good at shooting - Me neither I'm so terrible
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When I play games by myself, I was  so nervous and my hands were shaking  
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but today yeah it's very fun
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- You know why? - No
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because we had the power of friendship
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okay yeah so we sucked at that game! But if you'd like to see us play another game
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Let me know which games you recommend  in the comments below make sure you  
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follow Marina she's genius she's so cool  and I'll see you in the next lesson bye
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