The phrase "almost innate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quality or ability that seems to be natural or inherent, but not entirely so.
Example: "Her talent for music is almost innate, as she picked up the piano with little formal training."
Alternatives: "nearly instinctive" or "practically inherent".
"When you work here, it's almost innate," she said.
It is a very human, almost innate, urge — readers want to touch what they are seeking to learn.
On the campaign trail, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has an almost innate sense for the crowd, but on this recent morning Mr. Davutoglu was still searching for the common touch.
(Dickens died at just 58, admittedly having worked himself into that early grave). An almost innate penchant for drink and gambling, combined with a certain fecklessness, seem equally part of the Dickens heritage — just think of the writer's own Mr. Micawber-like father.
He was hired and quickly fired from a small software company, where his employer, Kord Campbell, recalled him as clean-cut and highly intelligent with an almost innate sense for programming, as well as the personality of a bull in a china shop.
Teltscher notes "an almost innate sense of British cultural superiority" running through the book.
By her reckoning, the artistic impulse is a human birthright, a trait so ancient, universal and persistent that it is almost surely innate.
"He has almost an innate taste for what is the right molecule, a feel for the direction he wants to go," says Mark Currie, a longtime colleague.
In contrast, he explains, "Associating maps with landscapes is almost an innate relationship to me, a theory probably be caused by my teenage dreams about the world".
LIKE Italian food, Italian red wine has an innate, almost elemental appeal.
President Bachelet's immediate response to the earthquake seemed genuine, and was almost certainly an innate thing.
