As promised, here are tajweed tips 4 through 6 for beginners:
Tip 4: Simulate an Arabic Environment
When you are learning tajweed or Arabic, in isolation, you need an environment where the language is spoken, so that you can hear how native speakers pronounce these words. As someone who doesn’t live in the Arab world, I’ve had to devise a means to hear Arabic speakers as often as possible. I do these by listening to native Arabic-speaking radio stations online. You may not understand everything the native speaker says right now, but hearing the alphabets pronounced by an expert will help you perfect your pronunciation. Because hearing something pronounced teaches you better than just reading it by yourself.
Tip 5: Practice Often
Practice is what brings all your tajweed classes and radio listening to life. Practice is how you perfect your tajweed and your recitation of the Qur’an. After learning a concept in tajweed, make sure to incorporate it into your daily discourse. When you say “JazakAllah Khayran”, try to pronounce the ‘kh’ as خ instead of ‘a’ or ‘k’ as an English speaker would say. When you learn something, use it in your daily speech, as often as possible so that you can get used to it.
