今天我投票了 今天我投票了。 我的朋友拉票了的教育委员会和我说话了我投票的他。 也他是我的同事。 jin1 tian1 wo3 tou2 piao4 le5.　　 wo3 de5 peng2 you3 la1 piao4 le5 de5 jiao4 ​yu4 ​wei​3 yuan​2 hui4 he2 wo3 shuo1 hua4 le5 wo3 tou2 piao4 de5 ta1。　　 ye3 ta1 shi4 wo3 de5 tong2 shi4 Today I voted. My friend was running (campaigning) for school board and I said I would vote for him. He is also my coworker. (He was running for school board director in the city I live in. I didn't know anything about the election other than my coworker was running. He was the only person I voted for even though there were many positions that were up for election.) sorry for the terrible Chinese grammar...

我很疲惫! 我很疲惫! 天气很热今天了. 我活动和我的同事室外了. What I meant: I am very tired. the weather was hot today and I exercised with my coworkers outside.

My job 我是美国人。 我的工作作为一个化学工程师。 我忙了多而我学中文很多也。 wo3 shi4 mei2guo2ren2. wo3de5 gong1zuo4 zuo4wei2 yi1ge4 hua4xue2 gong1cheng2shi1. wo3 mang2 le5 duo1 er2 wo3 xue2 zhong1wen2 hen3 duo1 ye3. What I meant: I'm American. I work as a chemical engineer. I am busy but I study Chinese a lot too.

Learning strategy help Ive been using memrise to learn Chinese vocabulary. Ive been learning a lot of characters that will be used in combination characters later and as building blocks. I'm not really learning sentence structure and stuff. Should I stick to learning vocab until a build up more useful words or should I try to focus a little more on grammar type stuff now. I just started like 2.5 months ago and id guess I'm maybe half a year of high school Chinese into the vocab. Any input is greatly appreciated : ) Thanks!