The phrase "a certain accent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific but unspecified accent that is recognizable or notable in a particular context.
Example: "She spoke with a certain accent that hinted at her European roots."
Alternatives: "a particular accent" or "an identifiable accent".
I needed a lot of coaching and some speech training because I had to have a certain accent".
"When I was teaching creative writing in Texas, for example, the students found some of what I was doing difficult, asking 'why are you giving us Van Gogh's diaries?'" Or he would challenge why they had adopted a certain accent rather than speaking in their own vernacular.
I do think that people who speak with a certain accent and in that loud way - because what private education does is give you confidence above all else - I notice that I'm a bit more wary of them, because of the values I think come with that.
"By speaking in a certain accent, that shows people you're coming from a certain region, and that triggers an additional in-group/out-group discrimination phenomena".
"By speaking in a certain accent, that shows people you're coming from a certain region, and that triggers an additional in-group/out-group discrimination phenomena," Dr Heblich told me.
Don't forget that some Cornish people have a certain accent which you could also try to imitate.
By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a broadly metropolitan speech, with certain accents (Kentish for instance) looked down on and the Northern barons and earls and their tenants taking very little notice of London - a tradition preserved.
If you can't join a group of people with the accent you want to learn, and can't travel, you can watch TV or find a website with audio clips of people with certain accents.
"The things I associate with home are Lovers Rock, certain accents, certain foods eaten in certain ways, a certain pace of doing things.
There are millions of English learners out there, many of whom speak it as their first language, but still find themselves unable to make themselves understood especially to Americans, who are particularly underexposed to certain accents.
Americans prefer certain accents and cringe at others.
