diff --git a/chatterbot/tagging.py b/chatterbot/tagging.py
index ea3c31d26..58e6017e8 100644
--- a/chatterbot/tagging.py
+++ b/chatterbot/tagging.py
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ def __init__(self, language=None):
 
         self.punctuation_table = str.maketrans(dict.fromkeys(string.punctuation))
 
-        self.nlp = spacy.load(self.language.ISO_639_1.lower())
+        # self.nlp = spacy.load(self.language.ISO_639_1.lower())
+        self.nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
 
     def get_text_index_string(self, text):
         """