What word is right?

[jiback7]

When I collect vocabulary, how can I efficiently find the correct, commonly-used words?
(too many hindi-speakers tell me that my vocabulary is too ancient and literary...)

[Meera]

When I collect vocabulary, how can I efficiently find the correct, commonly-used words?
(too many hindi-speakers tell me that my vocabulary is too ancient and literary...)

Hmm, I would use the most up to date dictionaries and textbooks. Also listen to regular people talking on TV or the radio(just not news programs). I really don't have a lot of other advice, you will just develop an ear for it the more you study.

[Gaqua77]

Read newspaper regularly, hear the talk shows, read novels, spend time on literature books. These options can help u alot specially the newspaper reading.

[Saim]

When I collect vocabulary, how can I efficiently find the correct, commonly-used words?
(too many hindi-speakers tell me that my vocabulary is too ancient and literary...)

Hmm, I would use the most up to date dictionaries and textbooks. Also listen to regular people talking on TV or the radio(just not news programs). I really don't have a lot of other advice, you will just develop an ear for it the more you study.

This. Now when I look in a dictionary I have a much better idea which is some nonsense Sanskritic word, which is Perso-Arabic and which is native vocabulary...