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Began is past tense. Begin is present tense.

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"Let's begin at the beginning. It was early last year that I first began to realise that my memory was not good as I had thought. But I can't remember what it was that made me realise this."

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"Began" is the past tense form of the verb "begin." In present tense, you would say "begin."

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