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Indonesia flagAnggun Nur I. M.
Please help me. I have a question.
There's new kotoba from my text book. ホームページを作る and ブログを始める, and the two of them （作るand 始める） have a same meaning or translation, that is 'create a website' and 'create a blog'. So, why in the sentence does 始める mean 'create'?

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始める doesn't mean "create".
始める means "get started", "make a start","begin","proceed", or etc
I think that the writer of your textbook just thinks the meanings of the two sentences are roughly the same, but I don't think so.
There is supposed to be some different ways of releasing blogs or homepages, but the writer just thinks that "作る" roughly equals "始める", maybe for simplification for studying Japanese.
I think that the writer thinks that the textbook's main purpose is practicing Japanese and it's not a dictionary.

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