Wait a sec, didn't his country INVENT the damn language?

I didn't have a student for one class tonight, so I got to listen to a British dumbass fumble his way through a countable/uncountable lesson.
Countable and uncountable are the two classes of nouns that are defined by whether or not they take a quantifier.

For example: I'll have a BOWL OF soup (soup is uncountable).
There are FIVE apples on the desk (apples are countable).

Generally, uncountables are liquids (beer), made up of many small pieces (salad, rice), or are words of foreign origin (curry). Which is why you can count pigs and cows (old English words), but not pork or beef (originally French words.) This is really tough to teach people whose native language doesen't even have a plural form for most nouns.

And as far as this guy's lesson went, I don't know which was worse: his crap explanations, his piss poor examples (he asked a Japanese person to name some foods, then tried to explain why sushi, soba and sukiyaki are all uncontable, then tried to gloss over the "I'll have a salad and 3 beers" dilemma, And finally he misprounced "Cabernet Sauvignon" and MIS-corrected the student who was closer with his katakana-pronunciation.

Keee-rist. They'll let anyone be a teacher.