I think I have a fairly good background knowledge about the structure of Korean, such as where the elements of a sentence fit and other grammatical generalities. Verb endings are very important in Korean as they house what makes a sentence flow, such as giving the introduction to a clause and also conveying emotion. For example, phrases such as "because," "it turns out that," and "to be allowed to" are all housed in different verb endings, as opposed to being placed at the beginning of the sentence. In recognizing what is a verb ending, you also have to be very familiar with verb stems and how they're sometimes manipulated to account for adding on the verb ending.
There are few comprehensive lists of verb endings that I've seen. Some websites that teach Korean have lessons on verb endings, including some of the connotations that they have and example sentences. Those are useful for learning about one verb ending at a time, but not so much if you see an ending you don't know and you want to quickly look up the definition. For learning these endings, I think that the websites are extremely helpful. I could learn from them and then use them in conversations with my language partner to have more concrete practice with using them.
I think a reference grammar would be incredibly useful as there are many grammar points, measure words being the most "foreign" one I can think of, that are extremely abstract to an English speaker. Having a guide that gave more insight into how English speakers should approach Korean grammar, including helping get into the mindset of how to phrase sentences in Korean from English, would be very useful in my studies.
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