After Meryl Streep recites poem in Chinese on US TV, four celebrities who are fluent in the language and two Trump grandkids who are learning


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Streep learned a famous Tang dynasty poem in 2011, intending to recite it on stage in China accompanied by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, but got cold feet and used English Nine years on, Stephen Colbert challenged her to recite it, and the Chinese internet lit up. But there are other celebrities who are fluent in Chinese Chinese internet users were wowed by actress Meryl Streep reciting in Chinese a poem she had learned nine years earlier. The actress is not the first celebrity in the West to have shown a passion for the language. Chinese social media went into a frenzy...