I think Nona may have taken a break.
"thing" is countable; "English" is not.
So the two are not comparable.
We can't take a pattern for countable nouns and apply it to non-countable nouns and expect to get correct results!
many kinds of things
many kinds of streets
many kinds of tables
many kinds of films
many kinds of meat
many kinds of sugar
many kinds of forgiveness
many kinds of English
CJ