"Area of expertise" translation

Question

I would like to know how to translate "area of expertise". Obviously, I could translate it myself word for word, but I am not sure if that is how it would be said in Spanish. I can't find the expression in the dictionaries. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Please try your translation and I am sure that either a spanish native speaker or an advanced and mayhap latter day genius of a helpful caring member will mosey by in due time. - ray76, May 24, 2014

and offer a bon mot of inestimable worth and erudition. - ray76, May 24, 2014

OK: here's my first shot at it. "Área de conocimiento." Asfor the bon mot, well, I'm afraid that's not my area of expertise. :-) - mattvd, May 24, 2014

Answer 1

Campo works in a lot of situations. Also esfera. Another way you could go is Mi especialidad es...

:) - FELIZ77, May 24, 2014

Answer 2

Hello Matt,

Your question:

I would like to know how to translate "area of expertise".

I found a sentence in my Oxford Spanish Dictionary that can shed some light on it:

Su pericia en el campo del marketing = His marketing expertise

I would say that "Area of expertise" would be something along the lines of:

campo de experiencia o campo de pericia = field of expertise

You could also possibly use: Su especialización es en la medicina = His field of expertise is in medicine....

Many of you are looking for the geographical or literal meaning of area whereas you need to be thinking of a field (that is: a sphere) of expertise

I believe that Teasip is also thinking along the right lines

You could try looking at this link in Word Reference .com: enter link description here

also this link to 123 teach me website: enter link description here

An approach that I find very helpful when looking up words in any bilingual dictionary with a view to making a translation is to home-in (focus) on the key words in any phrase/sentence: field of expertise look up expertise then look up field (or sphere as you are thinking of a sphere of expertise over which the person has some influence) This helps you to be more specific but you also have to be aware of whether you are looking for a literal or a metaphorical meaning!

I hope this helps

I look forward to seeing what the natives say

Answer 3

I wonder would it make a difference to which area of experience , specialisation ,

expertise that one wants to describe , for example would we use the same word

to say "my area of expertise is dance "or "My area of specialisation is special Education"

We need a native Spanish speaker for this .

Answer 4

My attempt:

Area of expertise - área de especialización

Good shot rac1. - ray76, May 24, 2014