diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5b96d4f6e..79af2cb4d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ install:
   - "pip install cython fabric fabtools"
   - "pip install -r requirements.txt"
   - "python setup.py build_ext --inplace"
-  - "mkdir corpora/en"
+  - "mkdir -p corpora/en"
   - "python bin/init_model.py lang_data/en corpora/en spacy/en/data"
 
 # run tests