Reddit reviews Elementary Korean: Second Edition (Includes Access to Website & Audio CD With Native Speaker Recordings)

This is the one he co-authored (Yeon Jaehoon is his name). Then there is also the Continuing Korean book, which I'm on at the moment. You have the TTMIK books so definitely stick with those. The ones I use for Uni have tons of translation exercises which I like but I can't say how useful they would be for a self-learner.

Yeah Korean grammar is completely flipped backwards if you're starting from English. Probably has to do with romance language root vs Chinese language root.

I think that part will come more eventually if you do a lot of listening.

I've taught Korean for a couple years now using [Elementary Korean](Elementary Korean: Second Edition Audio CD Included https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804844984/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_CcXFybBHJEVNP). It's an English (vs American) textbook, but I've found it to have decent pacing.

I found [Elementary Korean] (https://www.amazon.ca/Elementary-Korean-Second-Audio-Included/dp/0804844984/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) pretty good when I took Korean at my school. Grammar was useful, explained well, and there's a workbook that you can buy with it!

Though I wouldn't vouch for the (sequel) book after that which is [Continuing Korean] (https://www.amazon.ca/Continuing-Korean-Second-Audio-CD/dp/0804845158/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=510IY%2Br6tDL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR120%2C160_&psc=1&refRID=M4W04FDG76DX6702F100) due to the grammar that was explained so poorly and grammar points that seemed really useless when talking to other Koreans. (Even my Korean friend who helped me with it said that some of the grammar points that were in the textbook were useless and most Koreans barely use them)

I'd forget the Internet for a few months, and use these two books:
Elementary Korean (http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Korean-Second-Edition-Included/dp/0804844984)

and
Continuing Korean (the next one in a series of three)

What you will find online is a messy hodgepodge of information, some of a dubious nature. I'd use the Internet as a resource for examples, fine tuning certain points, and forums like this for well-thought-out questions (if you don't want to be abused!).

Those two books are very similar to a college class, well organized, with a logical progression. And chiefly written by a native English speaker...yet another problem with online resources is that many of them were done by Koreans in shitty English (this is also a problem with a number of books)...

Some of the crap on youtube is just a joke, by the way. Books are the way to go, if you ask me.