June 19, 2018　=========

☆  initiate   始める

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If you initiate something, you start it or cause it to happen. Don’t confuse this word with initiating someone into a group, such as a religion or social group at university. In that case, initiate means to perform a kind of ceremony to make that person a member of the group. In university in the USA, this kind of initiating seems a bit scary! People who want to join that group often have to go through terrible things in order to be initiated into the alumni.

Instead, this word is about initiating discussion, or initiating a family trip so that you can all create deeper bonds and fun memories. Or initiating training at your office for the new staff. Or initiating a new idea that was suggested at the meeting.

Have you initiated anything recently?

Bye,

Chris