Support Your Child's Bilingual Journey

Join ThinkChinese and Dr. Anna Gurevich to discover proven methods for supporting your child's bilingual journey from home.

Hailed from Berlin, Dr Gurevich is a psycholinguist specializing in multilingual language and early literacy development. She helps international and bilingual families replace guesswork with clear, research-based strategies that strengthen children's language growth at home. Her work bridges scientific insights with practical routines parents can use every day. She has a PhD in Psycholinguistics, with research focused on how young children acquire literacy in a second language (including Chinese). She also raises multilingual children herself and brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her guidance.

This webinar gives parents clear, research-based answers to the questions they're already asking - and practical strategies they can start using immediately.

What parents will learn?

1. What multilingual development really looks like?
Parents will gain a realistic understanding of how young children develop multiple languages. We will look at why “balanced bilingualism” is not the goal, why language mixing is a normal and healthy part of multilingual development, and how parental attitudes and expectations directly shape language use at home. This section helps parents understand what actually drives children to use a second language and how to create the conditions that make a second language meaningful and necessary.

2. How parents can support learning foreigh language at home (without pressure)?
Parents will learn practical, sustainable ways to increase language exposure at home and integrate it into daily routines. We will cover simple book habits, games, and conversational rituals that naturally build vocabulary and confidence. Finally, we will look at how to create a family language plan, so your children's confidence can grow without pressure or overwhelm.

3. What’s unique about learning Chinese?
We will explore why acquiring Chinese often feels slower than other languages, especially at the beginning, and why literacy develops over a longer timeline compared to alphabetic languages. Parents will understand the role of input quantity, what “enough exposure” looks like in practice, and what realistic early progress looks like. This provides reassurance and sets healthy expectations.

Parents will leave with confidence, clarity, and concrete tools they can use immediately.