Korean’s language structure, for the majority, is SOV (subject-object-verb). This knowledge can be acquired through reading books on how Korean grammar works, as well as constnatly engaging in Korean to see in which phrases there are exceptions to the structure. For example, when writing “He sang the song”, in Korean, the object, the song, would be placed right after the word “he”. Then, the verb would be placed at the end, and the variation of the word would indicate whether it occurred in the past, present, or future.
Having a reference grammar could be useful, but it probably wouldn’t aid too much. Korean and Japanese have similar SOV structures, but since I don’t know much Japanese, comparing and contrasting for reference wouldn’t be helpful for me. It would be better to just focus on learning Korean, as adding in other languages could complicate the process of learning the language for me.
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