I am a novice speaker, is Japanese a language that just isn’t very specific about certain things?

Tldr: Sometimes a phrase is understood a lot of different ways, do you just use context clues to know what they are saying?

I am almost through my first audiobook on learning Japanese and looking forward to starting my second. I guess I would say I'm in that stage where I'm starting to notice certain things and my ear is becoming more accustomed to the language. I decided to learn the language when I was invited to a wedding in Japan, I really want to try to be respectful while I'm there. I have been watching shows and playing all my games in Japanese to try to continue hearing the language.

While watching spy family and solo leveling I noticed they said "Dozo" but it had different translations. On Solo Leveling a coworker brings another person a drink and says it with the subtitles saying "Here you go" but I saw another instance of it being used and it had "go ahead". I used the Google translate and it said it means "please.

I apologize for not knowing the writing of the word but I have only been learning through audiobooks and podcasts as I work.

by CrawlinOutTheFallout

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