Tips For Understanding Nuance/Puns/Wordplay/etc?

Japanese
#1

So part of how I define fluency (which is what I want to achieve in Japanese) is understanding when sentences can have a broader meaning then its literal translation like with double entendres for English for example. Does anyone have any advice on how I can obtain that kind of level of understanding? My assumption is it requires lots and lots of reading and asking questions so I can at least do the later and ask here. I’m only a month into learning Japanese so I know I am very very very VERY far from getting that kind of level of mastery but it’d be nice to know if there’s something I can do even at this early stage. If there’s already a post on this specific subject please feel free to redirect me. I did look but didn’t really see anything.

Thanks in advance!

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#2

It’s literally just reading and searching up stuff on the Internet you don’t get.

Perhaps look up some more japanese history and culture while you are at it.

Unfortunately we’ll probably never get all the references and nuance unless we were born there though. Similar to how people won’t get alot of english references even if they are pretty much fluent

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#3

You can watch this short clip for an easy example of a basic pun. If you don’t get it after a couple of viewings, move down and read some of the explanations in the comments, then watch it again to see if you get it then.

Your understanding will improve as you just study Japanese in general. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of someone specifically studying Japanese puns.
But if comedy is something you’re into I’d say that once you’ve gotten a bit further into your studies you should watch comedy channels on youtube, like 葛西美空のYouTubeチャンネル for example.

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#4

As a native Czech who has reached fluency in English, although some areas are still bad, I can confirm this.

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#5

Appreciate all the replies! I suspected I’ll probably never understand all nuance. There’s probably some examples where that applies to English, my native language, too! Especially since there are many countries that have English as a first language. I’ll still give it my best shot! Thank you all again!