ASL with Courtney, ASL World Cup Signs

Courtney Cannon, a deaf ASL instructor, shares essential signs related to the World Cup, perfect for fans and newcomers wanting to communicate about the tournament in American Sign Language.

The discussion covers common signs like “World Cup,” “soccer,” “team,” and “game,” and specific signs for terms like “lost” and “yellow card”.

Main Topics:

Common phrases used during the World Cup (e.g., “who do you like,” “looks good,” “final round”)

Sign language basics for the World Cup

How to sign “World Cup,” “soccer,” “team,” and “game”

Specific signs for match outcomes, such as “lost” and “yellow card”

Variations in signs across dialects

Labrador website

Transcript

Mark Miller (00:02.168)
Hi! I am here with Courtney Cannon, who is deaf and an ASL instructor. I know a little bit of ASL myself, but I’m way out of practice, so I invited her to join me and teach me some signs related to the World Cup. Because we’re right in the middle of the World Cup, we’re getting to the finals, yay! And I want her to teach me some signs. Now you’ll notice that I’m speaking. Courtney’s nodding her head.

she has transcription software or or capt captioning yeah captioning software that allows her to understand what I’m saying. Right. so we are gonna be speaking, that’s why. and but in in the process of this Courtney’s gonna teach me some signs. So Courtney, is there anything you wanna say before you start sharing some of these World Cup signs with me?

Courtney Cannon (00:59.461)
Yes, thank you very much for having me today. And while I wanted to let everybody know, that, yes, I am deaf, but I’m still speaking myself. I also sign And I’m also KD.

The community that is a wide spectrum of the deafness, some talk with no signing and some sign with no talking and some both, I am speaking to myself.

Mark Miller (01:30.082)
Great. Well thank you for that perspective. And the reason we’re here, tell me what signs, if I were gonna have a conversation in ASL about the World Cup, what are some of the important signs I should know?

Courtney Cannon (01:45.309)
So we will begin with the World Cup. So there are two different signs for the World Cup. The first one is World The second one is World So the winner of World is… Yes, this is a W. And the second one is because the World

Mark Miller (01:58.296)
World.

Mark Miller (02:03.692)
world. And this is a and this is a W. So that’s why yeah. Circling. Yeah.

Courtney Cannon (02:15.046)
it’s the earth right not wrong, so different dialects of ASL.

Mark Miller (02:22.343)
Different.

Okay, understand. So World Cup.

Courtney Cannon (02:33.658)
Because this is a trophy.

Mark Miller (02:36.174)
Trophy. Okay. So I’m saying world and then I’m showing the World Cup trophy. Is the way is a way to think of it. Now can I also say World Cup?

Courtney Cannon (02:48.1)
Yes, you could do that. They also want sun, want cup, but they spell out cup. Yes.

Mark Miller (02:55.732)
C U P So World C U P. So it’s three signs World Cup, World Cup, and World World Cup. Okay. Alright. Yay me. Okay, so what’s another what’s an another sign?

Courtney Cannon (03:01.584)
Yes, that’s one different way to sign it. So many!

Courtney Cannon (03:17.092)
Hey, you got it!

Courtney Cannon (03:24.39)
The next word is soccer Soccer

Mark Miller (03:27.221)
Soccer

Courtney Cannon (03:30.854)
This is another soccer

Mark Miller (03:34.821)
Soccer

Courtney Cannon (03:35.932)
This is more commonly used

Mark Miller (03:39.424)
Soccer. Soccer. Okay.

Courtney Cannon (03:41.51)
Yes. Hey, teams.

Mark Miller (03:45.902)
Teams and this is a T teams.

Courtney Cannon (03:50.269)
because the people line up in a circle a people at a game for teams

Mark Miller (03:55.586)
Cara.

So can I sign soccer team?

Courtney Cannon (04:06.939)
Yes.

Mark Miller (04:09.184)
Soccer T. Okay. Great.

Courtney Cannon (04:11.292)
There you go. But next for these countries.

Mark Miller (04:17.326)
Countries.

Courtney Cannon (04:18.332)
There’s so many different countries.

Mark Miller (04:22.21)
lot of different countries.

Mark Miller (04:32.882)
U S A Which is the team that you like?

Courtney Cannon (04:40.092)
a game

Mark Miller (04:47.096)
Game. Okay.

Courtney Cannon (04:49.756)
Such a

Mark Miller (04:51.224)
Soccer game. Okay.

Courtney Cannon (04:55.047)
Play

Mark Miller (04:57.198)
Play.

Courtney Cannon (04:58.768)
Players

Mark Miller (05:00.91)
Players. So if I do this, this if I do it great. So play so if I do this, it always means like a person. So play, person is player. Great.

Courtney Cannon (05:02.48)
But I’m Player

Courtney Cannon (05:11.866)
What? Exactly.

And then watch

Courtney Cannon (05:22.364)
across.

What the

Courtney Cannon (05:29.318)
Okay.

Mark Miller (05:29.644)
Watch so you’re saying watch the World Cup soccer game.

Courtney Cannon (05:39.184)
Perfect!

Mark Miller (05:40.654)
Perfect.

Courtney Cannon (05:43.196)
Yeah, you did awesome.

Mark Miller (05:43.65)
Yay me.

Mark Miller (05:49.198)
Okay.

Courtney Cannon (05:49.604)
Have you been watching the world’s catch games?

Mark Miller (05:55.395)
Yes. Some Some Some games.

Courtney Cannon (05:58.183)
some

Mark Miller (06:04.564)
If I’m not working.

Mark Miller (06:11.19)
If you are you watching the World Cup games?

Courtney Cannon (06:18.553)
I watched some the games are too late.

Mark Miller (06:28.012)
So you’re exhausted. Yeah. Yeah. Same. I fall asleep. Is that right? Fall asleep? Yep. I fall asleep a lot. So I watch the first half. Fall asleep. Ha half. Half. So I watch the first half and then fall asleep for the second.

Courtney Cannon (06:28.846)
I eat… Cluffs… But… can’t.

Courtney Cannon (06:41.148)
Yes.

Courtney Cannon (06:58.022)
music.

Mark Miller (06:58.936)
Second, second, second.

Great.

Courtney Cannon (07:04.54)
I’m excited to see what country makes it to the last round.

Mark Miller (07:11.822)
so that would be final final round round so this is an R round. Great. All right.

Courtney Cannon (07:15.674)
Yes, kind of.

But who are the panel game?

Mark Miller (07:26.754)
final game. Great.

Courtney Cannon (07:28.475)
Yeah.

Who do you think will win the World Cup?

Mark Miller (07:37.3)
I don’t know.

Courtney Cannon (07:38.864)
That’s tip for it.

Mark Miller (07:40.536)
But like Argentina

Courtney Cannon (07:46.62)
Argentina

Mark Miller (07:48.972)
Argentina? I don’t know, looks good? How do you sign looks good?

Courtney Cannon (07:57.873)
The team looks good.

Mark Miller (07:57.881)
How is it?

team looks good. they adapt really really well. Yep. They adapt well. And then France

Courtney Cannon (08:19.568)
in.

Mark Miller (08:20.44)
Yeah.

Courtney Cannon (08:22.833)
There you go

Mark Miller (08:23.564)
Okay, so France that team looks good. sorry, team looks good. Yep.

Courtney Cannon (08:34.204)
teams.

Mark Miller (08:37.186)
Yeah. So who do you like?

Courtney Cannon (08:45.638)
Some of the teams that I’ve wanted to win have not in any more so it’s hard. They’ve lost lost.

Mark Miller (08:54.583)
Lost. Lost is another good sign. Lost. Yeah.

Courtney Cannon (09:06.702)
It’s a too bad but I’m just curious to see what happens.

Mark Miller (09:15.042)
What was this sign again? Close?

Courtney Cannon (09:16.444)
CURIOUS

Mark Miller (09:32.906)
cursed.

Courtney Cannon (09:39.196)
Close… Close…

Mark Miller (09:41.07)
Got it cursed. Well are there are there any any other signs that we should know?

Courtney Cannon (09:52.344)
Yeah, that’s good tweet.

Mark Miller (09:53.283)
That’s it? That’s it. Okay, so quick review. World Cup.

Courtney Cannon (09:59.814)
Yes.

Mark Miller (10:02.008)
Team Game U S A Lost and Soccer or Soccer and Ball we should say ball, right? So soccer ball soccer ball

Courtney Cannon (10:09.756)
But like how you put the lost after USA

Courtney Cannon (10:21.87)
Yes.

Mark Miller (10:32.376)
What’s that? Player?

Courtney Cannon (10:32.422)
Players…

Mark Miller (10:36.462)
Player.

Courtney Cannon (10:39.152)
Watch

Mark Miller (10:40.706)
Watch. Okay, I’m gonna ask about a sign. how do you say yellow?

Mark Miller (10:58.718)
like you’re flicking the card out. Yellow card. Okay. And then

Mark Miller (11:07.822)
Okay, and then red card. Red.

And then like foul or fault penalty.

Courtney Cannon (11:20.796)
Like a penalty.

Mark Miller (11:25.134)
Penalty. Penalty. Okay. Great. Well thank you. Now I’m gonna watch the game and sign.

Courtney Cannon (11:31.74)
You’re a show.