The phrase "practical talents" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a person's abilities or skills that are useful and can be applied in real-life situations or tasks. Example: "She may not have any academic qualifications, but her practical talents in carpentry and plumbing make her the go-to person for any repair or renovation work in the neighborhood."
What Tycho accomplished, using only his simple instruments and practical talents, remains an outstanding accomplishment of the Renaissance.
There is work (her practical talents revive the photography shop), picnics, rowing and fishing on the river, and afternoons of talk.
A more limited but happier exercise of his practical talents began soon afterward: for more than a decade he directed, energetically and with great insight and compassion, a reformatory home for young female delinquents, financed by his wealthy friend Angela Burdett-Coutts.
So Fat Tony is a quick-witted rapper and a matchmaker: He's released two solo albums, won the Best Underground Hip-Hop award from the Houston Press for the past three years, and is currently studying for a degree in communications at the University of Houston but building serious, loving relationships might be his most practical talent.
The military will be stronger in a practical sense, when talents are no longer wasted, and someone who is openly gay or lesbian can walk into a recruiting office and put his or her name down without apprehension.
Explanations run from the practical -- a talent gap with the Galaxy – to the tactical: Portland can't make the adjustment from its cozy 110-by-74 pitch to the expansive 120-by-75 that greets them in SoCal.
Corbyn's talents were practical: knocking on doors, targeting the next ward.
At the same time Charlotte's ambition to make the practical best of her talents and the need to pay Branwell's debts urged her to spend some months as governess with the Whites at Upperwood House, Rawdon.
It remains for Theater Works in Hartford to reveal the urgency, fire and nuance that can only emanate from the flowering of a talent against practical odds.
He had a great talent for practical politics and for personal involvement in what to most Americans would seem the most distinctly foreign of affairs.
Mr Hart was vigorous and enthusiastic with a talent for practical demonstration, in the spirit of science: doing things in the real world in order to understand how the world works.
