Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「以古為鑒」 and its explanation.
The featured idiom 「以古為鑒」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
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The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ gǔ wéi jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 gu2 wai4 gaam3
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