Learn English Gaming Vocabulary, Gaming Acronyms, and Gaming Words

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hello everyone and welcome back to the english  danny channel i'm teacher john and i'm here to  
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help you become great at learning english  today's topic is gaming acronyms and if  
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you don't know about acronyms don't worry we're  going to learn about acronyms in today's video  
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so keep watching so what is an acronym well  an acronym is an abbreviation of several words  
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formed with the first letters of each word okay so  let's look at a few examples of this okay we have  
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usa which of course means united states of  america un which is uh the united nations  
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and of course we have nasa all right let's  look at our first gaming uh acronym and that is  
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afk afk means away from keyboard and you  can say it or you can type it so you can  
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you know you can say this if you're talking to  someone when you're when you're playing a game  
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and you want to use this when you are leaving  your computer all right so you're you're away  
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from your keyboard so you can't respond  to somebody who's trying to talk to you  
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and we use this as an adjective all right so let's  see a few examples okay for example i need to do  
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something for a few minutes so i'll be afk or just  i am afk our next word is rpg and rpg means role  
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playing game and people use this acronym to talk  about any game when you play a character class  
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such as a knight or a wizard okay so for example  world of warcraft is my favorite rpg or i only  
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play rpgs these days and i'm sure that you can  see rpg is used as a noun and our next word is fps  
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fps means first person shooter and people use this  acronym to talk about any game where the character  
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uses a gun from the first person perspective maybe  you don't know what first person perspective means  
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and this actually it means that when you play the  game it's as if you're seeing the game through the  
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characters eyes so you can't see the character  okay it's through their eyes that's called  
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first person so let's u let's use this in  an example call of duty is a popular fps  
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or i don't really like to play any fpss and  our next one is ffa ffa means free for all  
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use this term to talk about a game where there are  no teams and all players can act freely to attack  
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other players and let's see it in an example  
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for example what time uh what type of game is this  team battle no it's ffa and our final word is ctf  
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ctf means capture the flag you can  use this term to talk about a game  
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where the objective or your goal is to capture  the flag of the opposing team and then return it  
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to your base or your home or something like  that your side of the map and let's use it in  
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an example here so for example we're playing ctf  not ffa all right everyone that's our video for  
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