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by henriquecm8 954 days ago
> (It helped that at this time my English got good enough that I could read whole novels complete with puns and obscure references.)

It's been almost a decade since I started watching movies/tv shows, and playing games with original audio (usually english or japanese) and english subtitles instead of my native language, to help improve my english. But I to this day, every time I rewatch the movie Airplane, there are new jokes I hadn't understood before. It's one's of the reason I like to rewatch it every couple of years, the other being that it's my favorite comedy movie.

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Even as a native English speaker, I'll occasionally re-read a Pratchett book and realize there was a minor reference or pun that I probably missed the last time.
Sometimes it is the core language and sometimes it is the jargon on top. After watching Apocalypse Now many times I recently found out that in Kilgore's "Outstanding Red Team, outstanding..." , red team is an actual thing in Air Cavalry .