Faire de, jouer à

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Just wondering if it might be possible to add a note after the end of the examples for »jouer à/au » and sport saying NB when you play an instrument however you say « jouer à la/au » just to remind people that jouer is used in this way also???

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Hi Marnie,
For musical instruments we use,  'jouer de'.
A few more examples -
jouer de la guitare,
jouer de la clarinette,
jouer du piano , 
jouer du tambour,
jouer de la harpe, 
jouer des castagnettes....
 
Hope  this helps!

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Je joue au foot. 
Je joue de la guitare.

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thanks Cécile it does. Just think it would be useful to mention this in the faire/jouer section on playing sports...as a note...”but when used with instruments it is ‘Jouer de/etc”.  I see somebody else agrees with me.

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Bonjour Marnie !
This was an excellent suggestion, and I've now added it to the lesson above :)
Merci et bonne journée !