diff --git a/chatterbot/tagging.py b/chatterbot/tagging.py
index 7f6a38581..ea3c31d26 100644
--- a/chatterbot/tagging.py
+++ b/chatterbot/tagging.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class LowercaseTagger(object):
     """
 
     def __init__(self, language=None):
-        pass
+        self.language = language or languages.ENG
 
     def get_text_index_string(self, text):
         return text.lower()