The phrase "a certain feel for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's intuitive understanding or sensitivity towards a particular subject or skill.
Example: "She has a certain feel for music that allows her to compose beautiful melodies effortlessly."
Alternatives: "an innate sense of" or "a natural talent for".
You get a certain feel for it and it becomes a mystical, magical thing.
You just get a certain feel for what the number's going to be that day.
They generate a lot of waste in the quest for a certain feel for a game, on a lot of grand experiments costing millions of dollars, and yet the end results are usually quite ordinary.
I understand that this sounds almost counterintuitive, but as a University Professor, I would like to think that I have a certain feel for such things; and if Coach Nick Saban is running first and foremost a teaching program that may well be at the source of his phenomenal success.
Phenomenalism about pleasure is the thesis that pleasure is a mental state or property that is or that has a certain something that is 'what it is like' for its subject; a certain feel, feeling, felt character, tone or phenomenology.
In a certain way, I feel for the kid.
He had worked out how to do a few things, but not knowing how to trim something down properly gave us a certain glue or feel for a particular sample, which then triggered a bassline or a snare pattern.
You have to feel a certain sympathy for all those Yale and Dartmouth grads at National Review and The American Spectator who feel obliged to eschew chardonnay and latte in favor of Budweiser and Maxwell House.
But no matter how one feels about Mr. Volkov's methods, one must feel a certain gratitude for the role his book has played in the elevation of Shostakovich's stock.
We feel a certain admiration for the Socialist Labor Party, its program, and its candidate.
We start to feel a certain concern for the actual town.
