diff --git a/training-basics/scripts/validate.sh b/training-basics/scripts/validate.sh
index 967b918..aa46232 100755
--- a/training-basics/scripts/validate.sh
+++ b/training-basics/scripts/validate.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 cat $1 \
     | sed 's/\@\@ //g' \
     | ../tools/moses-scripts/scripts/recaser/detruecase.perl 2> /dev/null \
-    | ../tools/moses-scripts/scripts/tokenizer/detokenizer.perl -l ro 2>/dev/null \
+    | ../tools/moses-scripts/scripts/tokenizer/detokenizer.perl -l en 2>/dev/null \
     | ../tools/moses-scripts/scripts/generic/multi-bleu-detok.perl data/newsdev2016.en \
     | sed -r 's/BLEU = ([0-9.]+),.*/\1/'