In speech therapy it is of the utmost importance to take into account the body. The living body, its tonus and attitude, is the first locus of open motions, oriented towards the others and the world. As such it is of crucial help for the young child’s language acquisition. Such a work elaborates itself especially through playing activities. They aim to put the body and the mind in motion through various vitality shapes. This implies the acknowledgement of others as socially and historically located subjects. Such a recognition of the body’s abilities and its various sensitive organs supposes the alterity of a physical common points. The attention given to these physical common points can facilitate, even for adults, the learning of a foreign language, especially concerning the acquisition of sounds and phonetic gestures acted by them.