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The aim with this study is to examine children’s play with regard to language development. The research project is based on Vygotskij’s socio-culture perspective dealing with children’s language development and learning through interplay with other children. It is also based on the scholarship on what language skills children learn by talking to another one. In the study I use observations to find out how children use the language when they interact with each other in play situations. The results confirm the idea that play-situations have a big impact on children’s development in language because it leads to children creating ways to discover the language, for example using their language skills as a tool to make others understand them. By interacting with other children they use different ways to speak and solve problems. In addition, they use the language to put words to their thoughts and fantasies and share their opinions, experiences and ideas. It further concludes that play situations provide a way for children to explore the language in a way that it becomes a part of their natural world