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For example, if I'm talking about something I did last week, is there a difference in these two examples, or are they the same thing. For example, if I plug in 本を読みました, or something like that into the .... ありがとうございます

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As far as it is your own action, they are virtually the same.

  • 先週は本を読みました

has the implicit I, so that it is equivalent to

  • 先週は私は本を読みました

which is more or less equivalent to

  • 私は先週は本を読みました

In all of the above, 先週は can be just 先週. The difference in these particular sentences is that using 先週は (and particularly the first one) sounds like the は being contrastive, so that something like but this week... is expected implicitly (or later in the sentence).

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