diff --git a/mteb/abstasks/retrieval.py b/mteb/abstasks/retrieval.py
index 62dbaa49ab..05d0db86b2 100644
--- a/mteb/abstasks/retrieval.py
+++ b/mteb/abstasks/retrieval.py
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ def load_data(self, num_proc: int = 1, **kwargs) -> None:
             return
 
         dataset_path = self.metadata.dataset["path"]
-        eval_splits = self.metadata.eval_splits
+        eval_splits = self.eval_splits
         trust_remote_code = self.metadata.dataset.get("trust_remote_code", False)
         revision = self.metadata.dataset["revision"]
 
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ def _process_data(split: str, hf_subset: str = "default"):
             )
 
         if self.metadata.is_multilingual:
-            for lang in self.metadata.eval_langs:
+            for lang in self.hf_subsets:
                 for split in eval_splits:
                     _process_data(split, lang)
         else:
diff --git a/mteb/abstasks/retrieval_dataset_loaders.py b/mteb/abstasks/retrieval_dataset_loaders.py
index 467e6349f8..a0da828e85 100644
--- a/mteb/abstasks/retrieval_dataset_loaders.py
+++ b/mteb/abstasks/retrieval_dataset_loaders.py
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ def _load_dataset_split(self, config: str, num_proc: int) -> Dataset:
         )
 
     def _load_corpus(self, num_proc: int) -> CorpusDatasetType:
-        logger.info("Loading Corpus...")
-
         config = f"{self.config}-corpus" if self.config is not None else "corpus"
+        logger.info("Loading corpus subset: %s", config)
+
         corpus_ds = self._load_dataset_split(config, num_proc)
         if "_id" in corpus_ds.column_names:
             corpus_ds = corpus_ds.cast_column("_id", Value("string")).rename_column(
@@ -152,9 +152,9 @@ def _load_corpus(self, num_proc: int) -> CorpusDatasetType:
         return corpus_ds
 
     def _load_queries(self, num_proc: int) -> QueryDatasetType:
-        logger.info("Loading Queries...")
-
         config = f"{self.config}-queries" if self.config is not None else "queries"
+        logger.info("Loading queries subset: %s", config)
+
         if "query" in self.dataset_configs:
             config = "query"
         queries_ds = self._load_dataset_split(config, num_proc)
@@ -169,9 +169,9 @@ def _load_queries(self, num_proc: int) -> QueryDatasetType:
         return queries_ds
 
     def _load_qrels(self, num_proc: int) -> RelevantDocumentsType:
-        logger.info("Loading qrels...")
-
         config = f"{self.config}-qrels" if self.config is not None else "default"
+
+        logger.info("Loading qrels subset: %s", config)
         if config == "default" and config not in self.dataset_configs:
             if "qrels" in self.dataset_configs:
                 config = "qrels"
@@ -204,11 +204,10 @@ def _load_qrels(self, num_proc: int) -> RelevantDocumentsType:
         return qrels_dict
 
     def _load_top_ranked(self, num_proc: int) -> TopRankedDocumentsType:
-        logger.info("Loading Top Ranked")
-
         config = (
             f"{self.config}-top_ranked" if self.config is not None else "top_ranked"
         )
+        logger.info("Loading top ranked subset: %s", config)
         top_ranked_ds = self._load_dataset_split(config, num_proc)
         top_ranked_ds = top_ranked_ds.cast(
             Features(
@@ -228,11 +227,10 @@ def _load_top_ranked(self, num_proc: int) -> TopRankedDocumentsType:
         return top_ranked_dict
 
     def _load_instructions(self, num_proc: int) -> InstructionDatasetType:
-        logger.info("Loading Instructions")
-
         config = (
             f"{self.config}-instruction" if self.config is not None else "instruction"
         )
+        logger.info("Loading instruction subset: %s", config)
         instructions_ds = self._load_dataset_split(config, num_proc)
         instructions_ds = instructions_ds.cast(
             Features(
diff --git a/tests/test_tasks/test_load_data.py b/tests/test_tasks/test_load_data.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b3cbed2df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_tasks/test_load_data.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+import pytest
+from datasets import Dataset, DatasetDict
+
+import mteb
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "task",
+    [
+        mteb.get_task("DiaBlaBitextMining", hf_subsets=["fr-en"]),
+        mteb.get_task("AmazonCounterfactualClassification", hf_subsets=["en"]),
+        mteb.get_task("WikiClusteringP2P", hf_subsets=["bs"]),
+        mteb.get_task("MultiEURLEXMultilabelClassification", hf_subsets=["en"]),
+        mteb.get_task("OpusparcusPC", hf_subsets=["en"]),
+        mteb.get_task("STS17MultilingualVisualSTS", hf_subsets=["en-en"]),
+    ],
+)
+def test_multilingual_load_data(task):
+    dummy_dataset = DatasetDict({"test": Dataset.from_dict({"text": ["test"]})})
+
+    with patch("mteb.abstasks.abstask.load_dataset") as mock_load:
+        mock_load.return_value = dummy_dataset
+        task.load_data()
+
+    assert mock_load.called
+    assert task.dataset is not None
+    assert len(task.dataset) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "task",
+    [
+        mteb.get_task("MIRACLRetrievalHardNegatives", languages=["eng"]),
+    ],
+)
+def test_multilingual_retrieval_load_data(task):
+    dummy_split = {
+        "corpus": Dataset.from_dict({"id": ["d1"], "text": ["doc"]}),
+        "queries": Dataset.from_dict({"id": ["q1"], "text": ["query"]}),
+        "relevant_docs": {"q1": {"d1": 1}},
+        "top_ranked": None,
+    }
+
+    with patch("mteb.abstasks.retrieval.RetrievalDatasetLoader.load") as mock_load:
+        mock_load.return_value = dummy_split
+        task.load_data()
+
+    assert mock_load.called
+    assert task.dataset is not None
+    assert len(task.dataset) == 1