Rosetta Stone wants to reinvent language learning for the smartphone era

Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone has long taken advantage of technological advances to deliver language learning to customers in the comfort of their own homes. Early on, that technology was the CD-ROM; the company’s yellow-boxed software packages were a familiar sight in malls and airports across the country. They promised immersive, interactive language learning modeled on how children learn, rather than dry study with grammar books and static audio recordings. In 2013, Rosetta Stone shuttere...