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@@ -59,9 +59,13 @@ The target language is English(en).
 * The following commands were used to install dependencies for the project:
   ```bash
   $ git clone https://github.com/RedHenLab/Neural-Machine-Translation.git
-  $ virtualenv myenv
-  $ source myenv/bin/activate
-  $ pip install -r Neural-Machine-Translation/requirements.txt
+$ virtualenv myenv
+# Linux/MacOS: Activate the virtual environment
+$ source myenv/bin/activate
+# Windows: Activate the virtual environment
+$ myenv\Scripts\activate
+$ pip install -r Neural-Machine-Translation/requirements.txt
+
   ```
 * **Note** that the virtual environment(myenv) created using virtualenv command mentioned above, should be of **Python2** .