diff --git a/spacy/en/download.py b/spacy/en/download.py
index 03a01564a..a89ca6589 100644
--- a/spacy/en/download.py
+++ b/spacy/en/download.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ from os import path
 import os
 import tarfile
 import shutil
+import wget
 import plac
-import urllib
 
 # TODO: Read this from the same source as the setup
 VERSION = '0.8.5'
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ SPEECH_DATA_DIR_URL = '%s/en_data_speech-%s.tgz' % (AWS_STORE, VERSION)
 DEST_DIR = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), 'data')
 
 def download_file(url, out):
-    urllib.urlretrieve(url, filename=path.join(out, url.rsplit('/', 1)[1]))
+    wget.download(url, out=out)
     return url.rsplit('/', 1)[1]