Supermemo for beginner

Nic   Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:17 am GMT
I am new to Supermemo and want to use it to learn Chinese as a total beginner.

I have read many post on this forum, but still have the following questions:

1/ At the beginning at least, I plan on using SM as a simple "vocabulary database" (until having enough material to use the definition or sentence approaches). In this case, should the question better be in English or Chinese (actually pīnyīn)?

2/ Is it possible that SM swaps randowmly (or according to its algorithm) question and answer?

Thanks in adavance for your comments.