Read The Jungle Book in English — and understand every line.
Read “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.
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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “The Jungle Book” begins
It had been raining heavily for one whole month—raining on a camp of thirty thousand men, thousands of camels, elephants, horses, bullocks, and mules, all gathered together at a place called Rawal Pindi, to be reviewed by the Viceroy of India.
He was receiving a visit from the Amir of Afghanistan—a wild king of a very wild country; and the Amir had brought with him for a bodyguard eight hundred men and horses who had never seen a camp or a locomotive before in their lives—savage men and savage horses from somewhere at the back of Central Asia.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 28 words you will meet most often in “The Jungle Book” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- wolf
- seal
- council
- beast
- wise
- hunting
- cattle
- catch
- cave
- paw
- stare
- master
- nursery
- tale
- trunk
- strike
- obey
- bear
- naked
- bat
- singe
- buck
- snap
- nest
- bush
- roar
- wicked
- sweep
The meanings here are the everyday ones. In the reader, tap a word to see the sense this sentence uses.
Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Jungle Book”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Jungle Book” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Phrasal verbs
- Relative clauses
- Perfect tenses
- Passive voice
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Reported speech
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verb with 'down' Next time I have to go over a man lying down I shall step on him—hard.
- Relative clauses with where He turned where he was lying all along on Pudmini’s back, and said, “What is that?
- At/on/in (time) These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring.
Counted the way the Reader shows it: one card per construction in a sentence. Open the book in the Reader and tap a highlighted phrase to see the rule.
Library
What you get while you read
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Grammar in context
Notable structures light up in the text, with a short explanation tied to the sentence you're reading.
About the book
Why The Jungle Book is a great book to read in English
Mowgli is raised by wolves, taught by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, and hunted by the tiger Shere Khan. Kipling's 1894 stories are short, vivid, and full of voices — a step up from fairy tales while staying firmly on the learner's side.
On LangOrbit you read “The Jungle Book” with a safety net: the translation is one tap away when a sentence runs long, every word opens its meaning in context and can be saved for spaced-repetition review, and the grammar behind the trickier lines is explained right where you meet it.
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