diff --git a/spacy/de/download.py b/spacy/de/download.py
index 4f02f0474..239d46884 100644
--- a/spacy/de/download.py
+++ b/spacy/de/download.py
@@ -1,14 +1,5 @@
-import plac
-from ..download import download
-
-
-@plac.annotations(
-    force=("Force overwrite", "flag", "f", bool),
-    data_path=("Path to download model", "option", "d", str)
-)
-def main(data_size='all', force=False, data_path=None):
-    download('de', force=force, data_path=data_path)
+from ..deprecated import ModelDownload as download
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    plac.call(main)
+    download.de()
diff --git a/spacy/deprecated.py b/spacy/deprecated.py
index 104259fb6..7394c5bf3 100644
--- a/spacy/deprecated.py
+++ b/spacy/deprecated.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from . import about
 from . import util
+from .download import download
 
 
 def read_lang_data(package):
@@ -77,3 +78,27 @@ def fix_glove_vectors_loading(overrides):
     if vec_path is not None:
         overrides['add_vectors'] = lambda vocab: vocab.load_vectors_from_bin_loc(vec_path)
     return overrides
+
+
+class ModelDownload():
+    """Replace download modules within en and de with deprecation warning and
+    download default language model (using shortcut). Use classmethods to allow
+    importing ModelDownload as download and calling download.en() etc."""
+
+    @classmethod
+    def load(self, lang):
+        util.print_msg(
+            "The spacy.{l}.download command is now deprecated. Please use "
+            "spacy.download [model name or shortcut] instead. For more "
+            "info and available models, see the documentation: {d}. "
+            "Downloading default '{l}' model now...".format(d=about.__docs__, l=lang),
+            title="Warning: deprecated command")
+        download(lang)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def en(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        cls.load('en')
+
+    @classmethod
+    def de(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        cls.load('de')
diff --git a/spacy/en/download.py b/spacy/en/download.py
index 7a2d58234..6d0a8dd40 100644
--- a/spacy/en/download.py
+++ b/spacy/en/download.py
@@ -1,25 +1,5 @@
-import plac
-import sputnik
-
-from ..download import download
-from .. import about
-
-
-@plac.annotations(
-    force=("Force overwrite", "flag", "f", bool),
-    data_path=("Path to download model", "option", "d", str)
-)
-def main(data_size='all', force=False, data_path=None):
-    if force:
-        sputnik.purge(about.__title__, about.__version__)
-
-    if data_size in ('all', 'parser'):
-        print("Downloading parsing model")
-        download('en', force=False, data_path=data_path)
-    if data_size in ('all', 'glove'):
-        print("Downloading GloVe vectors")
-        download('en_glove_cc_300_1m_vectors', force=False, data_path=data_path)
+from ..deprecated import ModelDownload as download
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    plac.call(main)
+    download.en()