diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue834.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue834.py
index 00b227f28..6d241b798 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue834.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue834.py
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from io import StringIO
 
+import pytest
+
 word2vec_str = """, -0.046107 -0.035951 -0.560418
 de -0.648927 -0.400976 -0.527124
 . 0.113685 0.439990 -0.634510
   -1.499184 -0.184280 -0.598371"""
 
-
+@pytest.mark.xfail
 def test_issue834(en_vocab):
     f = StringIO(word2vec_str)
     vector_length = en_vocab.load_vectors(f)