Oh, my poor cracked head...

All this while I was actively making edits on Kingdom Hearts Wiki. It came to pass on one of those random days... a new user signed up for KHWiki. He turned out to be the administrator, the creator of Kingdom Hearts Wiki France. After he found out that I speak French, he struck a conversation with me on my talk page.

I knew he needed help with edits on KHWiki France, so I joined the fray not long after.

Because I had absolutely no experience of the French version of the game (all this while, I was playing in either English or Japanese), what I did was this : in a bid to complete the character pages, I translated the info from KHWiki and added it into KHWiki France.

Now, User:Unbirth would do periodical edits to my work - and every time I took a second look at the article, I was awestruck. The language was awesome, to say the least. When all this while I was writing in passé composé (the usual form of past tense) and imparfait (imperfect tense), he used passé simple (simple past tense) – which can only be found in really good written pieces. I didn't know whether to laugh at myself or cry....... And not very long after, I got a message on my talk page - my flaws in the language were very obvious.

These days, as I attempt to translate well, my head aches. Sometimes I despair because I can't find the proper word or phrase to put in. When I'm forced to (for lack of words and plot elements), I watch the French clips of Kingdom Hearts on YouTube, but doing so has its drawbacks - primarily slow connection, so it'd take ages to actually load one video. And imagine I'm translating the plot elements, people and events that link to Roxas' story : this process requires several videos, not just one. I used to be fast in my writing - not anymore.

Oh, my poor cracked head...

I can easily place the fr-4 userbox (near-native French indication) on my KHWiki user page, but right now, as I have nine months to the C2, I can't possibly be stuck at fr-4. I need User:Unbirth's level of French ! Otherwise, au revoir la réussite !

P.S. Well, at least that guy called me troisnyxetienne and not trois like most other members.