Have you ever walked in front of a child engaged in an activity while talking to himself out loud? If so, don't worry, after reading this research paper you will understand that it is perfectly normal. Language has many dynamics including: words, private speech, inner speech, syntagmatic, paradigmatic, and much more. According to Craig and Dunn (2010) by the age of three, most children are able to use 900 to 1,000 words; by age 6, most children have a productive vocabulary of 2,600 words and can understand more than 20,000 (p. 161). Some children I work with who are in the nursery are able to speak, but they leave out pronouns in a sentence. For example, a child would say, "Shall we go walking?" Language and cognitive development go hand in hand: as children learn about their world, they also learn to talk and communicate with themselves and others. An important part of language development is private speech. According to The Motivational Function of Preschooler's Private Speech (2000) Vygotsky stated that the main goal of private speech is to communicate with one's thought processes and actions. I remember when my brother was a little boy, about four years old, he stuttered on his own and I thought he was crazy; that is until my mother told me I had done the same thing when I was her age. According to Craig and Dunn (2010), children between the ages of four and eight have been observed talking to themselves approximately 20% of the time in schools that allow it (p. 162). I find this observation to be true because I entered kindergarten and always saw at least one child talking to himself while working on a difficult problem. I found the article mentioned interesting about schools allowing children to use private speech, such as a tea... in the middle of a sheet of paper... ample examples of when you think about going to the grocery store your own When images of the fruit and vegetable market and the item you need to get automatically come to mind, you don't need to say all the words. I learned so much about language and how children develop their language skills early in life. I find language development to be one of the most amazing subjects to learn, now that I have read more about language I think I want to change my career path, I still want to work with children but not teach. I can imagine myself as a speech therapist, I feel I have gained great knowledge about how children develop their language skills and move from private speech to inner speech in the zone of proximal development with the help of parents and others around them. I love encouraging children to be their best and always support their dreams.