How the Quran is arranged, and how to read it
The Quran is 114 surahs of unequal length, 6,236 ayat in the standard numbering this site uses, and is not arranged chronologically. The long surahs at the front are largely Medinan; the short, rhythmic surahs at the end are mostly Meccan. Reading from the end is therefore the usual way a beginner begins.
The book speaks of itself as a reminder that is protected and as a recitation made easy for remembrance. Those two assertions are the reason the Arabic text is treated as the reference point of everything else on this site: the reader shows the Uthmani text, and every translation sits beside it as a separate, named edition with its translator, not as a replacement.
In practice: choose a published translation from the reader controls, open any ayah to get a permanent link and a citable reference, bookmark what you want to return to, and use the recitation player to hear the passage you are reading. Where a translation has no published edition connected, the page says so rather than filling the gap with a machine rendering.
Quran
إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا ٱلذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُۥ لَحَٰفِظُونَ
Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.
ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْكِتَٰبُ لَا رَيْبَ ۛ فِيهِ ۛ هُدًۭى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ
This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah -
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ
And We have certainly made the Qur'an easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?
أَوْ زِدْ عَلَيْهِ وَرَتِّلِ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ تَرْتِيلًا
Or add to it, and recite the Qur'an with measured recitation.