开始

We start our class at eight o'clock every day.

When did you start learning Chinese?

He has learned to play the piano since he was four years old.

Now, let's start the class.

You go faster! The film is about to begin.

At first, he couldn't speak a word of Chinese and couldn't understand it.

At first he didn't want to come, so I persuaded him to come for half a day.

I didn't understand his words at first, but then I slowly understood them.

This university started out small, and now it's a university of tens of thousands of people.