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I've been trying to figure out how to say something like:

"I'd like to familiarise myself with XXX before the meeting so do you have any
information that you can pass me before hand." (I.e. I have an agenda, but
it's the first time I am interacting with the project so I don't know what the
project is. I am asking for an overview of the project)

For "familiarise" the only thing I could find was `慣れ親しむ{なれしたしむ}`, but I'm not
sure if it's natural or not.

So my sentence would be:

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    事前に慣れ親しむために共有できる情報や資料などありますか？
    
```

Any comments / improvements?
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How to say "To familiarise onself with"
打ち合わせの前に内容をちょっと知りたいので資料があれば見せていただけますか？

慣れ親しむ in this case is an understandable mistake, but 慣れる is to be familiar in
the sense of being used to something, and 親しむ is familiar in the sense of
familiarizing yourself with a friend, a word used generally with
relationships. Apparently I could be wrong on this, but 共有 as a word means
"share" in the sense of joint ownership rather than the English sense of
letting someone know something. Checking Alc shows that you can use it in the
sense of sharing files, though.

My version says something more along the lines of "I want to know what the
meeting will be about beforehand, so if there are any documents (info) could
you please let me see?"
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ssb's answer explains how 慣れ親しむ is unsuitable here pretty well, so I'll just
list up some more expressions you can use.

Treat "to familiarize oneself beforehand" as a single concept:

> XXXについて予習{よしゅう}しておきたいので、資料などあればお願いします。

  * 予習する: to prep

Breakdown the notion of "to familiarize oneself" into several words:

> XXXの概要{がいよう}を把握{はあく}しておきたいので、...

  * 概要: overview
  * 把握: grasp, understand

Combination of the above:

> XXXについて予備知識{よびちしき}を仕入{しい}れておきたいので、...

  * 予備知識: background knowledge
  * 仕入れる: get (by extension of "buy", "stock up on")
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