Yes, if you are already advanced in Chinese. The Untamed rewards strong listeners who want wuxia vocabulary and formal historical speech, but its clan titles, courtesy names and stylised dialogue make it a hard place to begin.
- Level
- Advanced
- Format
- Drama
- Year
- 2019
- Episodes
- 50
- Length
- about 46 min each
- From
- Tencent QQ
Why it works for learners
Fifty episodes of about 46 minutes give you a long run with the same voices, clans and honorifics, so the genre's language starts to recur. You pick up cultivation terms, sect politics and the polite forms characters use across rank. That register rarely appears in modern dramas. The friendship at the centre keeps you watching through stretches of dense talk, which matters when a series is this long and this demanding.
What makes it hard
One person can go by several names and titles, and that gets confusing fast. Much of the vocabulary belongs to fantasy and old-style speech, so little of it transfers to daily conversation. Expect to rely on Chinese subtitles for set phrases.
How to use it
Watch the first five episodes with Chinese subtitles and keep a short list of names and titles. Note the formal address forms each time they recur. Once these feel familiar, stop pausing and let whole episodes run, rewatching only key scenes.
More for Chinese learners: our Chinese guides.
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