diff --git a/chatterbot/tagging.py b/chatterbot/tagging.py
index ea3c31d26..79fbb4636 100644
--- a/chatterbot/tagging.py
+++ b/chatterbot/tagging.py
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ def __init__(self, language=None):
 
         self.punctuation_table = str.maketrans(dict.fromkeys(string.punctuation))
 
-        self.nlp = spacy.load(self.language.ISO_639_1.lower())
+        if self.language.ISO_639_1.lower() == 'en':
+            self.nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
+        else:
+            self.nlp = spacy.load(self.language.ISO_639_1.lower())
 
     def get_text_index_string(self, text):
         """