How native speakers pronounce “began”

first year or so things went well but then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling

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even thought about running away from the valley but something slowly began to dawn on me I still loved what I

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Together we traversed many concourses and I began to worry about the time. I

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

We've eliminated more than half of them since I began diving. In 2009, I wished for expeditions, films, the web,

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

Let the clams do the rest. Seagrasses began to grow again once the clams were back. The water became clearer.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

Creatures that live and need the seagrasses began to return. And now we can see that the place is delivering

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

their flip phones for smartphones, and the phone-based childhood began. Their

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

most of those bonding experiences. Levels of loneliness and anxiety began to rise almost immediately

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

devices in the 2010s, national test scores began dropping in the USA.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

20 years of vast intervention and investment, and the story ended exactly where it began -- Taliban to Taliban.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

begin to speak about the future in the same grammar. And trust began to grow in our coalition, in our process and in each other. I watched Palestinians and Israelis recognize each other's losses.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

where I work as a professor of behavioral science. That morning on the train began like every other I'd been on for years beforehand --

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

This led us to learn something new. We began to pay more attention to the bird and the bird's wings, and just think of all the discoveries

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

I started performing off it, too. I began designing a character to survive my life. That character is Keke Palmer --

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

In fact, my love of science itself began when my parents bought me a slime chemistry set and was then only enhanced

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

I broke my cheekbone, I got five stitches on my right eye. And I began the journey of rediscovering the value of sleep. And in the course of that, I studied,

How to succeed? Get more sleep | Arianna Huffington

But through my disappointment, I began to see, like many of the people I had interviewed,

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

And it's the poetic of that language that I'm interested in, which is why I began to explore this concept of erotic intelligence. You know, animals have sex.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

and everything is happening, at the same time. So when I began to think about eroticism, I began to think about the poetics of sex.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

So when I began to think about eroticism, I began to think about the poetics of sex. And if I look at it as an intelligence,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

They knew how to keep themselves alive. And when I began to listen to the sexlessness of the couples that I work with,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

or that they've hoped it would afford them. And so I began to ask a different question. "I shut myself off when ..." began to be the question.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

And so I began to ask a different question. "I shut myself off when ..." began to be the question. "I turn off my desires when ..."

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

"What turns me off is ..." and "You turn me off when ..." And people began to say, "I turn myself off when I feel dead inside, when I don't like my body,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

to receive pleasure." And then I began to ask the reverse question. "I turn myself on when ..."

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

So at this point, my me-search shifted, as I began to wonder about the effects of connections, especially in the context of work

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

But I loved it and I was determined to figure it out. And that's where my journey began as a female athlete, where I learned so many of those lessons that we all learn from sport:

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

Can you tell us more about that experience? Amelia Nagoski: Well, it began with me going to school while I was getting my doctorate in musical arts in conducting.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

I will be trapped forever in the dark with the rats and the bats." I began a practice of noticing when my body was experiencing a sensation, allowing it to be and allowing it to move all the way through.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

And as I practiced that with gentle emotions, I began to be able to practice it with more and more intense emotions, both positive and negative, intense emotions.

Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski: The cure for burnout (hint: it isn't self-care) | TED · TED

I lead a school design organization called Transcend. And when we began working with the Brooklyn community, our first step wasn't to bring in a program.

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

“Does absolute power corrupt absolutely?” Students began to discuss amongst themselves. And then I asked, "Now what would you do if you had this kind of power?

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

in our tiny two-room apartment when suddenly the phone began to ring. So I stumbled across the darkened space

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

with barbershops and health, which began in Chicago in medical school. The very first research project that I worked on as a medical student

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

I was so proud of this plan, and it ended before it even began. Because 2020 is when the COVID lockdowns happened

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

But that changed when she began to see care tasks as morally neutral. All of the sudden, the dishes in the sink

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

independent from the straight white norms of the English language. But when those words began to be used online, they were quickly taken by people who wanted to capitalize

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

Here's a great update of that older cartoon. "To think this all began with letting Autocomplete finish our sentence," which indeed it did.

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

In fact, one in four prescriptions written every single day in the US is off-label. So I began to study my own blood in the lab to try to find a repurposed drug for me.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

but I was out of options. So I began to test it on myself. In the three years before I started sirolimus, I nearly died five times.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

for multiple diseases, saving thousands of lives. Like Kylo, who began her freshman year of nursing school after we repurposed a bone-marrow cancer drug to save her life,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

who was nonverbal for three years, and within three days of starting leucovorin began to say his first words. (Applause)

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

And if we get it right in Africa, the place where humanity began, we might just show the world the way forward.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

I mean, this is a game played by billions of people. And that began the process that led to two books. And I think, frankly,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

to slowing down the slow cities movement began in Italy and then went global

Slow Spaces

To me, the answer is pretty obvious. When I began studying human-AI interaction 13 years ago, it was inconceivable to me

How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking | Advait Sarkar | TED · TED

of Giving Tuesday since it was created in 2012. And it began as an experiment. Could we use social media to create a day of giving,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

he started doing what he does best, and he began to cook hot, free meals for overwhelmed hospital workers. And when he was starting to do that, other people saw, they were inspired,

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

we need to start with why things have to change. About 10,000 years ago, humans began to farm. This agricultural revolution was a

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

Um, I would say that the change really began uh in earnest in the 80s and into the 90s.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

The first story that I want to tell you is when I began my career in advertising, many, many years ago,

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

SS: Entirely different. I mean, when I began to write it, you heard me talk about poetry and the way that I write it.

“Marigolds,” a Poem About Wonder | Safiya Sinclair | TED · TED

What do you mean?" And then he began to trace out these images of what you could see. And I saw a man on the moon for the first time.

What Gets Lost When We Treat Conversations Like Transactions | Khaya Dlanga | TED · TED

that we could start eradicating all human diseases. But instead, we began to realize just how little we actually understood about the true function of DNA.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

only to be pulled back again to where they began if land feels stepped upon

Naima Penniman: "Being Human" | TED Countdown · TED

I love spoken word. I will keep coming back week after week." And step three began when I realized I didn't have to write indignant poems,

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

a love poem unlike any I had ever heard before. And the poem began, "Anderson Cooper is a gorgeous man."

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay

both of which require but also create energy. So as an activist, I began working with the Parkinson's Disease Foundation -- that's pdf.org --

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

to create a major initiative to put women on the Parkinson's disease map. And as a poet, I began working with this subject matter, finding it tragic, hilarious, sometimes even joyful.

4 Powerful Poems about Parkinson's and Growing Older | Robin Morgan | TED Talks · TED

My posture straightened. My confidence began to flicker awake. Ballet made me feel alive

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

(Laughter) But the real breakthroughs came only when I began to confront my childhood. Growing up, my father showed his love by pushing me to excel.

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

No, initially I was really happy to be in the fashion industry. You know, but then I began to compare my trajectory to others, and I also began to feel burned out

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

You know, but then I began to compare my trajectory to others, and I also began to feel burned out because I was burdened by these personas that I had created

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

I must have joined every museum on Museum Mile in New York City. I began to travel the world just to look at architecture I had always dreamed of.

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

Where does the end begin? Well, for me, it all began with this little fellow. This adorable organism --

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

by a community of people that honored my interests. But as I got older, I began to get confronted by a big question:

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

I was beginning my freshman year at Harvard right as my television show “Grown-ish” began filming season two. And I was at a crossroads, because acting for me has been more than a career.

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED · TED

and Carol and I shared the Nobel Prize for this work -- we began running experiments and we discovered cells do have something else.

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

entered fossil records. What began as a passive experience, the simple act of letting light in,

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

soon became far more active. The nervous system began to evolve. Sight turning to insight.

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

the famous 1952 primordial soup experiment, the one that showed us how life began on Earth. But with one tiny change.

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

Because science isn't just for scientists. When researchers discover how life began or unlock how ancient brains turned to glass,

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

Over that time, life evolved and diversified. Then a few million years ago, something began to shift. After countless cycles of growth and adaptation,

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

After countless cycles of growth and adaptation, one of life’s branches began using tools, and that branch grew into us. We went on to produce a mesmerizing variety of tools,

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

Around 80 years ago, another new branch of technology began. With the invention of computers,

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

thousands of lives. And we began to find, about 30 years ago,

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

and shape our health? But then other studies began to find the same thing. We found that people had less depression,

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

changing somewhat. The boundaries of their body began to feel a bit nebulous. Even their psychological self felt a bit porous at times.

Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look | Anil Ananthaswamy | TED · TED

more often than not, my dates began wanting to see me again. I was getting better at dating because I was becoming a flirt.

How to Unlock Your Flirting Superpowers | Francesca Hogi | TED · TED

the aesthetic was given a direction. Now people began to debate what did and did not qualify as hyperpop. The label and the playlist made the phenomenon more real

Why Are People Starting to Sound Like ChatGPT? | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

that would always resolve into that feeling of wonder. And I began to see that as my job, to lead people to moments of wonder.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

"Whoa!" "Wow!" JA: But I began to get kind of tired of these stories. I mean, partially, it was the repetition.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

And this struggle kind of became the point. I began to think, "Maybe that's my job." To lead people to moments of struggle.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad

(Laughter) And I began to think that really, movement was only as good as the sense of stillness

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

running down to the sea. And I sat down, and I began to write, and write, and write,

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

from the last email to the next appointment. And I began to think that something in me had really been crying out for stillness,

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

So, after I had spent some years in the U.S. as an African, I began to understand my roommate's response to me. If I had not grown up in Nigeria,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

are "half devil, half child." And so, I began to realize that my American roommate must have throughout her life

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

to be successful, I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents had done to me. (Laughter)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

Portland made a bunch of decisions in the 1970s that began to distinguish it from almost every other American city.

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

so it was easy to get gunpowder. When I first began using gunpowder to create art, I would lay out a canvas in the living room

A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED

that led to my research in artificial intelligence that began in 2017. This led to the launch of my AI Cai,

A Firework Ladder to the Sky — and the Magic of Explosive Art | Cai Guo-Qiang | TED · TED

I want you to think about your own journey. My journey began in 1971 when I witnessed two oil tankers collide beneath the Golden Gate,

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

And I have to tell you, it was a very moving experience, because for the first time, I began listening -- in a long time. And what I heard, it kind of disturbed me.

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

And on Earth Day, 1990 -- the 20th anniversary of Earth Day -- that’s when I began to speak. And that’s why I said, "Thank you for being here."

John Francis: Walk the earth ... my 17-year vow of silence | TED · TED

just like the one I'm wearing, which is over 100 years old. A kimono might be used until the cloth began to wear out, then turned into pajamas, then cut up into nappies,

Lessons From History for a Better Future | Roman Krznaric | TED · TED

And at 15, I began studying Chinese landscape painting. And through the studies,

How Art Transforms Brokenness Into Beauty | Lily Yeh | TED · TED

Otherwise the light in you will die." And so I began small. At the beginning, only children came to help.

How Art Transforms Brokenness Into Beauty | Lily Yeh | TED · TED

with donated materials, found materials, we began to make murals and sculptures and mosaics. And children’s laughter and joy were infectious

How Art Transforms Brokenness Into Beauty | Lily Yeh | TED · TED