diff --git a/deepchecks/nlp/utils/text_properties.py b/deepchecks/nlp/utils/text_properties.py
index bb86b35aa2..833d1ab1a3 100644
--- a/deepchecks/nlp/utils/text_properties.py
+++ b/deepchecks/nlp/utils/text_properties.py
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ def language(raw_text: Sequence[str],
     # This weird code is to suppress a warning from fasttext about a deprecated function
     try:
         fasttext.FastText.eprint = lambda *args, **kwargs: None
-        model = fasttext.load_model(model_path)
+        model = fasttext.load_model(str(model_path))
     except Exception as exp:
         raise exp