'tangible and real' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is concrete and tangible, meaning that it can be experienced or perceived in some way. For example, "The students' joy was tangible and real when they found out they had passed their final exam."
It has made the Holocaust tangible and real, rather than distant and mysterious.
"We have to try and find a way to make this tangible and real to people.
A paradigm for the human condition, "Godot" oscillates between the tangible and real and that which remains invisible and unknowable.
Facts are like archeological finds – they must strike us as tangible and real, therefore likely, plausible, attested, but also new and revelatory.
"If these are tangible and real achievements, why the dissatisfaction, political noise and growing frustration is some sectors of the population?" he asked.
Until now, there had been only a vague, mysterious sense of an invisible microworld; Dalton's atoms gave the imagination something concrete to chew on, made this tangible and real.
And now comes the Chernobyl disaster, spreading its cloud of radiation across the Soviet Union and Europe as if to remind us that our peril, which sometimes seems to us abstract and theoretical, is tangible and real.
It was still a place defined more by the blueberry bread, the red and yellow peppers, the easy banter of buyers and sellers that was tangible and real than by the inscrutable train wreck on Wall Street.
This is not to say that the events are autobiographical – that's rarely the case – but experience provides a sort of sense-memory, an authenticity that hopefully finds its way on to the page, because if the background is tangible and real, then hopefully events in the foreground will seem more plausible, too.
Bob Geldolf presented the best documentary prize to climate change documentary Before the Flood, saying that the "reality that [the film] presents is tangible and real and scary and I'm not sure you want to watch but you must watch it".
