diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 00c30fffc..6d2fdf588 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,15 +7,6 @@ Python which makes it possible to generate responses based on collections of
 known conversations. The language independent design of ChatterBot allows it
 to be trained to speak any language.
 
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 An example of typical input would be something like this:
 
@@ -58,10 +49,7 @@ chatbot.get_response("Hello, how are you today?")
 
 ChatterBot comes with a data utility module that can be used to train chat bots.
 At the moment there is training data for over a dozen languages in this module.
-Contributions of additional training data or training data
-in other languages would be greatly appreciated. Take a look at the data files
-in the [chatterbot-corpus](https://github.com/gunthercox/chatterbot-corpus)
-package if you are interested in contributing.
+
 
 ```
 from chatterbot.trainers import ChatterBotCorpusTrainer
@@ -78,42 +66,3 @@ trainer.train("chatterbot.corpus.english.greetings")
 # Train based on the english conversations corpus
 trainer.train("chatterbot.corpus.english.conversations")
 ```
-
-**Corpus contributions are welcome! Please make a pull request.**
-
-# [Documentation](https://chatterbot.readthedocs.io/)
-
-View the [documentation](https://chatterbot.readthedocs.io/)
-for ChatterBot on Read the Docs.
-
-To build the documentation yourself using [Sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/), run:
-
-```
-sphinx-build -b html docs/ build/
-```
-
-# Examples
-
-For examples, see the [examples](https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/tree/master/examples)
-directory in this project's git repository.
-
-There is also an example [Django project using ChatterBot](https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/tree/master/examples), as well as an example [Flask project using ChatterBot](https://github.com/chamkank/flask-chatterbot).
-
-# History
-
-See release notes for changes https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/releases
-
-# Development pattern for contributors
-
-1. [Create a fork](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/) of
-   the [main ChatterBot repository](https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot) on GitHub.
-2. Make your changes in a branch named something different from `master`, e.g. create
-   a new branch `my-pull-request`.
-3. [Create a pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/).
-4. Please follow the [Python style guide for PEP-8](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/).
-5. Use the projects [built-in automated testing](https://chatterbot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/testing.html).
-   to help make sure that your contribution is free from errors.
-
-# License
-
-ChatterBot is licensed under the [BSD 3-clause license](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause).
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):
         """