Learners often say "advices", "furnitures", "informations", "homeworks" or "Your hairs are long". In many languages these words are normal countable nouns, so the plural feels right. In English they are uncountable. In this episode: • The big eight that learners pluralize • How to count them • Many or much, few or little • Nouns that switch meaning • A kitchen table scene • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: advice — Can I give you some advice? Never "advices". furniture — We bought new furniture for the living room. information — Thanks for the information. luggage — How much luggage do you have? Your bags are countable, but luggage is not. homework — I have a lot of homework tonight. news — The news is on. News looks plural, but it takes is. bread — We need bread. hair — Her hair is really long. All the hair on your head is uncountable. There's a hair in my soup! — one single hair is countable a piece of advice, a piece of furniture, a piece of cake — one part a slice of bread, a slice of pizza — one thin piece a loaf of bread — the whole bread a bowl of rice, a cup of coffee, a glass of milk — containers a carton of milk, a can of soup, a bag of rice — store containers a roll of paper towels — one roll a tube of toothpaste — one tube How many eggs do we have? — countable How much milk is left? — uncountable We have a lot of furniture. — sounds natural I don't have much time. — much is common in negatives and questions a few cookies — a small number a little sugar — a small amount I love coffee. — the drink in general Season 2 · Real American English: the complete spoken course for learners worldwide — accent, everyday grammar, prepositions, articles, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang and real conversations at home. Listen, repeat out loud, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.