カンチガイ英語 – Thanks for your advices Nick.
A few days ago I was speaking to a Japanese friend, and I was giving him some help with a job application. And he said “Thank you for your advices, Nick.” Now, this of course is wrong, we can’t say “advices”.
Why can’t we say this?
Well, advice is an uncountable noun – 数えられない名詞ですね。
So if we are giving advice, we can say two things.
例文１ Here’s some advice. (You should do this, this and this)
例文２ Here’s a piece of advice. (Something specific – one thing)
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