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The meaning of also fangen wir an, according to Google Translate is: let's get started.
While the individual translation of the words are: so, catch we, to.
How did these combine to make that? "So we begin to" with an emphasis because of wir after fangen instead of before?
Here anfangen is a so-called "trennbares Verb": it splits into its parts, namely
an|fangen (the whole means to begin).
You conjugate the last part. Here it's in imperative mood and therefore fangen goes first, then the personal pronoun (wir), and finally the first part of the verb (an).
I must say I very often hear instead of fangen ([ˈfaŋən]), fangn ([ˈfaŋn]).
I understand your confusion. Thats just because of the similitude of two German verbs: anfangen which means to start or to begin and fangen which means to catch. Despite their spelling (and etymolgoy), those two verbs have no connection in the German language.
"Fangen" means "to catch" and "an" means "on."
The literaly meaning of "anfangen" is to "catch on" (to something), which is a roundabout way of saying "start."
