The academic discourse about children’s multilingualism is mostly shaped by adults’ perspectives. Views of the children themselves remain a desideratum. The study by Groskreutz (2016), which is based on qualitative interviews, works towards closing this research gap. The core issues are individual perspectives of 60 primary school pupils about growing up multilingually. The results provide an insight into their heterogeneous experiences and illustrate their high-level competence of self-disclosure. This article focusses on two aspects particularly. Firstly, information allowing conclusions with regard to the children’s language and culture related self-images are analysed. Secondly, the children’s statements on their language (learning) experiences at school are outlined. The article finally offers a discussion of pedagogical consequences in language learning contexts, a critical reflection of the study and its results, and prospects for further studies.