diff --git a/spacy/lang.pxd b/spacy/lang.pxd
index fd4cf6e70..54f317ce8 100644
--- a/spacy/lang.pxd
+++ b/spacy/lang.pxd
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from cymem.cymem cimport Pool
 from .typedefs cimport hash_t
 from .tokens cimport Tokens, TokenC
 from .lexeme cimport Lexeme
+from .tagger cimport Tagger
 from .utf8string cimport StringStore, UniStr
 
 
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ cdef class Language:
     cdef PreshMap _cache
     cdef PreshMap _specials
     cpdef readonly Lexicon lexicon
+    cpdef readonly Tagger pos_tagger
 
     cdef object _prefix_re
     cdef object _suffix_re
diff --git a/spacy/lang.pyx b/spacy/lang.pyx
index 1fdd683f3..0ca5f08d2 100644
--- a/spacy/lang.pyx
+++ b/spacy/lang.pyx
@@ -39,10 +39,12 @@ cdef class Language:
         self._infix_re = re.compile(infix)
         self.lexicon = Lexicon(self.set_flags)
         self._load_special_tokenization(rules)
+        self.pos_tagger = None
 
     def load(self):
         self.lexicon.load(path.join(util.DATA_DIR, self.name, 'lexemes'))
         self.lexicon.strings.load(path.join(util.DATA_DIR, self.name, 'strings'))
+        self.pos_tagger = Tagger(path.join(util.DATA_DIR, self.name, 'pos'))
 
     cpdef Tokens tokens_from_list(self, list strings):
         cdef int length = sum([len(s) for s in strings])