Capacidades que una persona ha aprendido.
The abilities a person has learned.
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Enumera tus habilidades en el formulario. — List your skills on the form.
Sus habilidades mejoraron tras un mes de práctica. — Her skills improved after a month of practice.
¿Dónde aprendiste esas habilidades? — Where did you pick up those skills?
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testThe heading on a Spanish CV where an English one says Skills — and the reason Spanish speakers writing English so often produce my abilities instead. Habilidad covers both English words at once: the skill you learned and the ability you happen to have. English keeps them apart, and abilities in a CV reads as a claim about your capacity rather than a list of what you can do.
The word implies something acquired, and that is the line between habilidad and capacidad. Two compounds came straight from English and are now standard: habilidades blandas for soft skills, habilidades sociales for social skills.
capacidad capability
What you are capable of, learned or not. Habilidad is always acquired.
destreza dexterity
Skill of the hands and the body. A surgeon has destreza; a manager has habilidades.
talento talent
The part you were born with, and the opposite pole from habilidad.
experiencia experience
The other CV heading, and a different claim: experiencia is where you have been, habilidades what you can do.
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