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The corpus was not particularly large (about 4000 words altogether), so the number of candidates found in a statistical survey was limited, but still useful to someone with my limited vocabulary. So I copied and pasted these discussions into text files and loaded them into a memoQ project for Portuguese to English translation. Sometimes there are sample questions reproduced with varying degrees of accuracy, and there is a lot of talk about things which people found particularly challenging. There are, however, a number of online forums where people talk about their experiences in the required courses and on the tests. There are no study guides in Portuguese or any other language which help to prepare for the weapons tests that I am aware of except the slim book prepared by the police. The pickings are a little slimmer in Portugal. Participants in a German hunting course typically read dozens of supplemental books and study thousands of sample questions for the exam.

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Years ago when I studied for a hunting license in Germany I had hundreds of hours of theoretical and practical instruction in a nine-month course concurrent with a one-year understudy with an experienced hunter. Twelve days afterward I was scheduled to take a written text, and in the unlikely event that I passed it, I was supposed to be subject to a practical examination on the safe use of hunting firearms are related matters. Most of the time I looked up words I saw in the slides or in the course textbook prepared by the PSP and made pencil notes on vocabulary in my book. Seven and a half solid hours of lecture left me utterly fatigued at the end of the day, but it was an interesting one in which I had a lot of aha! moments as I saw a lot of concepts presented in Portuguese which I knew well in German and English. It all started two weeks ago when I attended an all-day course on Portugal's firearm and other weapon laws in Portalegre. This time I used it and other techniques to study subject matter I master reasonably well (the features, use and safety aspects of firearms for hunting) with the aim of acquiring vocabulary and an idea of what to expect for a weapons qualification test in Portugal, where I have lived for several years but have not yet achieved satisfactory competence in the language for my daily routine. Typically I use subject-specific corpora in English (my native language) to study the 'authentic' voice of the expert in a domain that may be related to my own technical specialties but which differs in its use of language in significant ways. In the last two weeks I had an opportunity to test my recommendations in a little different way than the one in which I usually apply them.

Slide from my recent talk at the Buenos Aires University Facultad de Derecho

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It has become a standard recommendation in my talks at professional conferences and universities as well as in private consultations for terminology.

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Among other things, it discusses how to create special text collections for particular subjects and then mine these for frequently used expressions in those domains. More than a decade ago I found a very useful book on practical corpus linguistics, which has had perhaps the greatest impact of any single thing on the way I approach terminology.