Harrisonburg steps up to help those impacted by Rosetta Stone layoffs (FILE) (Source: WHSV) By John Hood | May 18, 2021 at 5:01 PM EDT - Updated May 18 at 5:01 PM HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Rosetta Stone, a Harrisonburg-founded language learning software, will be seeing layoffs at its downtown office after the company changed ownership earlier this year. The community is doing what it can to help those impacted. The company was founded by Allen and Eugene Stoltzfus and John Fairfield in 1992. Since then, Rosetta Stone says it has helped more than one million people in 150 countries read, write, and speak in different languages. The company was bought by IXL Learning back in March.