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@Crumbs: I wouldn't worry about this, especially if you listen to a broad range of languages!

I would think it could only be good for a baby to be exposed to the sounds of different languages. You could even use it and send your LO to language classes when they are old enough. They'll have a head start by already being comfortable with the sounds. I think as long as you are speaking one language to LO there shouldn't be any confusion.

I read an article a couple of weeks ago about how small children (I think under age 2?) pick up words from parents, not media. The article was talking about how if your kid uses curse words, it's most likely that they heard it from parents, not tv. Anyway, if you apply that same concept to your situation, your LO probably won't start mixing random french and korean words unless you do at home...? I am a layman and I don't remember where the article was from, and this is just my interpretation.

Completely unprofessional advice based on a few classes in college...I know children are born with the ability to make all the sounds in different languages. You know how some sounds are really tricky to master because they aren't in our language, like rolled r's in spanish? Or picking up on different emphases in Chinese? We lose that ability by age 12 or so, which is why people have accents if they learn a language after that.

So maybe hearing those languages, even if she doesn't learn them, will help her a teensy bit if she decides to pick one up down the road!