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.

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Special thanks to Bing Chao for her Mandarin samples, and Hiromo Yamazaki for her Japanese samples.

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