A lot more people have spanish or mandarin as their first language then english. So in terms of native language, enlish is not the most common one. Maybe it's the most common language taught in schools and so on.
Definition of immediate. 1  1a : acting or being without the intervention of another object, cause, or agency : direct the immediate cause of deathb : present to the mind independently of other states or factors immediate awarenessc : involving or derived from a single premise an immediate inference.
If you press the red button, you'll activate weapons of mass destruction and initiate a global war. As a verb, initiate means to start. As a noun, initiate (short a) means to be part of a group. Initiate is a tricky little devil because you pronounce the last bit one way as a verb (i-ni-she-ate) and another when it's a noun (i-in-she-at). If you're an initiate, you've been introduced to a field of study, an activity, etc. You can be a novice or a veteran.