Gente vs People

Just a quick shoutout to this common confusion involving the use of GENTE in Spanish.

For English speakers, the weight of the plural implications of PEOPLE tends to push them into saying things like:

Native Spanish speakers often make they mistake when they say

Remember that GENTE is always singular and should be preceded by the feminine article:

And so on and so forth,

Happy Spanish learning,

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