Listen for these sounds

• Alam tara and alam yaj‘al open different ayahs. Use those openings as separate memory cues.
• Fa‘ala, yaj‘al, ‘alayhim and ‘asf contain ‘ayn. Learn it from the reciter and teacher rather than an English substitute.
• Ashab has emphatic sad and throat ha; fil has a long vowel. Keep the whole phrase connected.
• Tadlil contains dad. Tayran contains emphatic ta. These are different Arabic letters.
• Bi-hijarah has throat ha; sijjil has doubled jim. Give the doubled sound its place.
• Ma’kul includes a hamzah. Follow the reciter for nasal joining in ayahs 4 and 5 and do not drop the final words.

Get a useful correction

Repeat a difficult word, then the complete ayah. Ask a competent Quran teacher to check your sounds, vowel lengths, joining and stopping. A written transliteration cannot provide that check. Correct one sound at a time and keep the session calm.