Language Lessons - Centro de Línguas de Lagos

Founded in 1982, Centro de Línguas de Lagos is a lively and welcoming language school in the heart of Portugal’s western Algarve. We teach Portuguese, English, French and German, and Spanish, and are proudly recognised by the Portuguese Ministry of Education. We also partner with a prestigious school in Japan to bring you high-quality online Japanese and Chinese lessons.

You’ll find us in the historic centre of Lagos—one of the Algarve’s most beautiful and inspiring towns. Lagos has grown into a vibrant international hub, drawing visitors from around the world with its breathtaking beaches, warm climate, fantastic restaurants, golf courses, and legendary surf.
Our classes follow communicative language-teaching methods, creating dynamic, interactive lessons that help students make real progress. Our experienced teachers are dedicated to helping you reach your goals, and both our teaching and administrative teams take the time to understand what you’re looking for in a language course.
Whether you’d like to join a friendly group class or prefer the focus of private lessons, we’re here to help you choose the best option. Feel free to drop in for a chat—or, if it’s easier, we’ll happily arrange a phone or video call.

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Customer Reviews

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Centro de Línguas de Lagos is an extremely well run and friendly language school. It is easy to book lessons and the school provides for all levels of tuition. The booking system is flexible and all staff are very approachable.

The instructors generate passion and offer a real connection with the students catering for all needs and ability levels. I have learnt so much in such a short time. Most importantly, the school has a great sense of community making everyone very welcome.

Brilliant language school.

Ian H - September 2024
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I am really delighted with the Intermediate Course that I am now doing online. I did the Beginners' Course in 2018 and the Pre-Intermediate Course in 2019 in the Centro in Lagos and enjoyed both those courses and learned a lot. I thought, with the Corona Virus situation, that the Intermediate Course I had enrolled in would be cancelled and I was very happy when I heard that it was moving online.

We are now half-way through the course and it is going really well. I am doing it from my home in Ireland. To be honest it is not very different from the experience of doing it face to face in a group in the Centro. The group of seven in the class has gelled very well and the classes are accessible and engaging. The technology has worked and there have been no problems at all. The homework is emailed to us after the lessons.

I would be happy to reassure anyone who is nervous about doing a course like this online that it works and it is easy to do. The main difference I regret is that nobody can bring a box of Pasteis de Nata for our break - as we used to take turns doing when I attended the courses in the Centro in the past. Now if Ana could find a way to email them - that would be really excellent!!!

Máire – Ireland
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I’ve just completed Sonia’s excellent beginners’ course today, so my thanks to you and Sonia for a brilliant experience. Whilst I have lots of practice to do, I can’t believe how much I have learnt in the last 2 weeks and how helpful it has been in getting a basic understanding of Portuguese. My sincere thanks to Sonia for her amazing teaching.

Steve - UK
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My experience so far has been great. Sonia is a wonderful teacher and adapted to the online environment very efficiently. Also the sharing of the course work after class, and sharing the Zoom links ahead of class is done very smoothly - kudos!

Anja - Lagos