“But Opa, I want to kümmer mich um die snails”

The present study examines how a preschool-age multiple language learner navigates adult-child-interactions focusing on the micro-level of individual linguistic resource management in situ. It addresses the research question of how this child constructs and conveys meaning through “languaging” in familial plurilingual com-munication contexts. The conversation analysis method of sequential analysis is used to examine the child`s linguistic choices in videotaped, transcribed interactions. Data analysis reveals that the child identifies the linguistic resources best suited to achieve her communicative objectives as a function of the pragmatic needs of the communicative situation, her linguistic knowledge and her growing sociolinguistic awareness.