diff --git a/decanlp/arguments.py b/decanlp/arguments.py
index 836c8303..343a37f6 100644
--- a/decanlp/arguments.py
+++ b/decanlp/arguments.py
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def parse(argv):
     parser.add_argument('--intermediate_cove', action='store_true', help='whether to use the intermediate layers of contextualized word vectors (McCann et al. 2017)')
     parser.add_argument('--elmo', default=[-1], nargs='+', type=int,  help='which layer(s) (0, 1, or 2) of ELMo (Peters et al. 2018) to use; -1 for none ')
     parser.add_argument('--no_glove_and_char', action='store_false', dest='glove_and_char', help='turn off GloVe and CharNGram embeddings')
-    parser.add_argument('--use_fastText', action='store_true', help='use fastText embeddings for encoder')
+    parser.add_argument('--locale', default='en', help='locale to use for word embeddings')
     parser.add_argument('--retrain_encoder_embedding', default=False, action='store_true', help='whether to retrain encoder embeddings')
     parser.add_argument('--trainable_decoder_embedding', default=0, type=int, help='size of trainable portion of decoder embedding (0 or omit to disable)')
     parser.add_argument('--no_glove_decoder', action='store_false', dest='glove_decoder', help='turn off GloVe embeddings from decoder')
diff --git a/decanlp/cache_embeddings.py b/decanlp/cache_embeddings.py
index 70fa0198..5770953f 100644
--- a/decanlp/cache_embeddings.py
+++ b/decanlp/cache_embeddings.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import sys
 from pprint import pformat
 
 from .text import torchtext
+from .utils.embeddings import load_embeddings
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -45,9 +46,7 @@ def get_args(argv):
     parser = ArgumentParser(prog=argv[0])
     parser.add_argument('--seed', default=123, type=int, help='Random seed.')
     parser.add_argument('--embeddings', default='./decaNLP/.embeddings', type=str, help='where to save embeddings.')
-    parser.add_argument('--small_glove', action='store_true', help='Cache glove.6B.50d')
-    parser.add_argument('--large_glove', action='store_true', help='Cache glove.840B.300d')
-    parser.add_argument('--char', action='store_true', help='Cache character embeddings')
+    parser.add_argument('--locale', default='en', help='locale to use for word embeddings')
 
     args = parser.parse_args(argv[1:])
     return args
@@ -62,10 +61,4 @@ def main(argv=sys.argv):
     torch.manual_seed(args.seed)
     torch.cuda.manual_seed(args.seed)
 
-    if args.char:
-        torchtext.vocab.CharNGram(cache=args.embeddings)
-    if args.small_glove:
-        torchtext.vocab.GloVe(cache=args.embeddings, name="6B", dim=50)
-    if args.large_glove:
-        torchtext.vocab.GloVe(cache=args.embeddings)
-
+    load_embeddings(args, load_almond_embeddings=False)
diff --git a/decanlp/text/torchtext/vocab.py b/decanlp/text/torchtext/vocab.py
index 3bf10df2..3b5a5f73 100644
--- a/decanlp/text/torchtext/vocab.py
+++ b/decanlp/text/torchtext/vocab.py
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ class GloVe(Vectors):
 
 class FastText(Vectors):
 
-    url_base = 'https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fasttext/vectors-wiki/wiki.{}.vec'
+    url_base = 'https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fasttext/vectors-crawl/cc.{}.vec'
 
     def __init__(self, language="en", **kwargs):
         url = self.url_base.format(language)
diff --git a/decanlp/util.py b/decanlp/util.py
index 5c82c920..c6abd684 100644
--- a/decanlp/util.py
+++ b/decanlp/util.py
@@ -173,11 +173,13 @@ def load_config_json(args):
                     'max_generative_vocab', 'lower', 'cove', 'intermediate_cove', 'elmo', 'glove_and_char',
                     'use_maxmargin_loss', 'small_glove', 'almond_type_embeddings', 'almond_grammar',
                     'trainable_decoder_embedding', 'glove_decoder', 'pretrained_decoder_lm',
-                    'retrain_encoder_embedding', 'question', 'use_fastText', 'use_google_translate']
+                    'retrain_encoder_embedding', 'question', 'locale', 'use_google_translate']
 
         for r in retrieve:
             if r in config:
                 setattr(args, r, config[r])
+            elif r == 'locale':
+                setattr(args, r, 'en')
             elif r in ('cove', 'intermediate_cove', 'use_maxmargin_loss', 'small_glove',
                        'almond_type_embbedings'):
                 setattr(args, r, False)
diff --git a/decanlp/utils/embeddings.py b/decanlp/utils/embeddings.py
index beb3840a..5b3dfee6 100644
--- a/decanlp/utils/embeddings.py
+++ b/decanlp/utils/embeddings.py
@@ -66,19 +66,24 @@ class AlmondEmbeddings(torchtext.vocab.Vectors):
         self.dim = dim
 
 
-def load_embeddings(args, logger=_logger):
+def load_embeddings(args, logger=_logger, load_almond_embeddings=True):
     logger.info(f'Getting pretrained word vectors')
-    final_vectors = []
-    if args.use_fastText:
-        vectors = [torchtext.vocab.FastText(cache=args.embeddings, language='fa')]
-    else:
+
+    language = args.locale.split('-')[0]
+
+    if language == 'en':
         char_vectors = torchtext.vocab.CharNGram(cache=args.embeddings)
         if args.small_glove:
             glove_vectors = torchtext.vocab.GloVe(cache=args.embeddings, name="6B", dim=50)
         else:
             glove_vectors = torchtext.vocab.GloVe(cache=args.embeddings)
         vectors = [char_vectors, glove_vectors]
-    final_vectors.extend(vectors)
-    if args.almond_type_embeddings:
-        final_vectors.append(AlmondEmbeddings())
-    return final_vectors
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+    # elif args.locale == 'zh':
+    # Chinese word embeddings
+    else:
+        # default to fastText
+        vectors = [torchtext.vocab.FastText(cache=args.embeddings, language=language)]
+
+    if load_almond_embeddings and args.almond_type_embeddings:
+        vectors.append(AlmondEmbeddings())
+    return vectors