How can you communicate without verb tenses? It’s not that hard, actually. This is a video about languages that don’t have verb tense but express time in different ways, and languages that lack certain tenses.
Special thanks to Bing Chao for her Mandarin samples, and Hiromo Yamazaki for her Japanese samples.
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