The main goal of this paper is to show how children of older kindergarten age (period between the ages of five and six) have the opportunity to acquire many new insights and knowledge through play. Play has a big role in everyone's life, and its beginnings can be seen with the development of the first civilization. The work thus describes play through history until today. Through social progress, but also thanks to numerous experiments and research, children today have greater opportunities for development because play is becoming more and more educational, and that is why today's children have the opportunity to learn a new foreign language. By acquiring their mother tongue, children create an ideal basis for new knowledge, but also for learning a new foreign language. The ideal age for learning a foreign language is up to the seventh year from the child's birth due to the different way of learning a foreign language. In parallel with older children and adults, kindergarten-age children learn foreign languages in a much simpler way without thinking about language rules and sentence structure. One of the methods that helps in learning a foreign language, and was used in our research, is learning by model of imitation. This paper therefore tries to show how children easily learn the basics of the Italian language according to the model of imitation, and thus create an ideal foundation for learning it. This paper contains research conducted by the Pula Kindergarten "Zvjezdice", and the respondents were children from an older kindergarten group. Through a poem in Italian and an imitation of the same, it was examined how children acquire new knowledge, how they acquire new unknown words, but also how they develop their mother tongue's vocabulary and create the foundations for learning a new language.