/lit/ - Literature

Is Duolingo a good place to learn a language, so you can read books in their original language?

Will Duolingo help me read Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Popper and Wittgenstein in the originals?

Is Duolingo a good way to learn a language if your main priority is reading? Most criticism I’ve seen is that it doesn’t prepare you to use the language in the real world because it doesn’t test spoken usage well and doesn’t require any spontaneous construction, but that doesn’t seem like a huge obstacle for reading. For German people seem to report that it teaches around three thousand words, which is surely a decent start...

What else would you recommend (for German specifically)?