diff --git a/data/downloadInputs.sh b/data/downloadInputs.sh
index 0929f63..113db3b 100755
--- a/data/downloadInputs.sh
+++ b/data/downloadInputs.sh
@@ -1,52 +1,20 @@
 #!/bin/bash -e
 
-OLD_DIR=`pwd`
-DIR=`dirname $0`
-cd $DIR
+this_dir=$(dirname "${0}")
+input_dir="${this_dir}"/inputs
 
-echo "Note that unzipping is slow."
+echo "Downloading dictionary files."
 
-L=en
-echo "Downloading from: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/"
-WIKI=${L}wiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml
-curl -L --remote-name http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/latest/${WIKI}.bz2
-mv ${WIKI}.bz2 inputs/${L}wiktionary-pages-articles.xml.bz2
+# Downloading wikimedia dump files
+for l in en fr it de es pt; do
+    download_url="http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${l}wiktionary/latest/${l}wiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2"
+    echo "Downloading data for language '${l}' from: ${download_url}"
+    wget --no-verbose --show-progress "${download_url}" --output-document="${input_dir}/${l}wiktionary-pages-articles.xml.bz2"
+done
 
-echo "Downloading from: http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/Local/urz/ding/de-en-devel/"
-CHEMNITZ=de-en.txt
-curl -L --remote-name http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/Local/urz/ding/de-en-devel/${CHEMNITZ}.gz
-mv ${CHEMNITZ}.gz inputs/de-en_chemnitz.txt.gz
+# Downloading de-en from chemnitz.de
+download_url='http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/Local/urz/ding/de-en-devel/de-en.txt.gz'
+echo "Downloading from: ${download_url}"
+wget --no-verbose --show-progress "${download_url}" --output-document="${input_dir}/de-en_chemnitz.txt.gz"
 
-L=fr
-echo "Downloading from: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/"
-WIKI=${L}wiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml
-curl -L --remote-name http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/latest/${WIKI}.bz2
-mv ${WIKI}.bz2 inputs/${L}wiktionary-pages-articles.xml.bz2
-
-L=it
-echo "Downloading from: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/"
-WIKI=${L}wiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml
-curl -L --remote-name http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/latest/${WIKI}.bz2
-mv ${WIKI}.bz2 inputs/${L}wiktionary-pages-articles.xml.bz2
-
-L=de
-echo "Downloading from: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/"
-WIKI=${L}wiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml
-curl -L --remote-name http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/latest/${WIKI}.bz2
-mv ${WIKI}.bz2 inputs/${L}wiktionary-pages-articles.xml.bz2
-
-L=es
-echo "Downloading from: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/"
-WIKI=${L}wiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml
-curl -L --remote-name http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/latest/${WIKI}.bz2
-mv ${WIKI}.bz2 inputs/${L}wiktionary-pages-articles.xml.bz2
-
-L=pt
-echo "Downloading from: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/"
-WIKI=${L}wiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml
-curl -L --remote-name http://dumps.wikimedia.org/${L}wiktionary/latest/${WIKI}.bz2
-mv ${WIKI}.bz2 inputs/${L}wiktionary-pages-articles.xml.bz2
-
-echo "Done.  Now run WiktionarySplitter to split apart enwiktionary."
-
-cd $OLD_DIR
+echo "Done. Now run './WiktionarySplitter.sh' to split apart wiktionary dump files."