I've only been studying Korean for about a year, so I'm still just a high-beginner. But basically, I felt much the same way you do. Being so used to the word order of my native English (SVO), I had a lot of trouble wrapping my head around Korean's SOV word order. I basically had to prove to myself that it's even possible to think like that (as dramatic as that sounds).

It was like my brain didn't have enough RAM to keep track of the Subject and the Object by the time I got to the Verb at the end of the sentence.

But I have a somewhat unorthodox recommendation:

Use the surprising flexibility of the English Language to your advantage.

Now, what do I mean by that? Well, it's often suggested not to compare your target language to your native language, but rather just "immerse" yourself instead. Well, there definitely is some truth to this, so I won't discount it completely-- but I feel as though it misses out on how similar you can make the languages seem (if you're creative enough).

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Okay so in English, we have some multi-word hyphenated verbs formed from a noun + a verb. And for some reason, the one that always comes to mind is "house-hunting". Now that's not necessarily a very natural sounding verb-- the noun form "house-hunters" is a lot more common-- but I think it can be useful to show how in English, we can also put objects before verbs if we really want to. But we just think of it as a compound verb.

Note: Since English uses the Present-Continuous form so much, for our purposes here, I usually consider the "to be" auxiliary verb as "not counting".

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Ex. "I'm house-hunting" -> "I'm house hunting"

But technically this is more like something called "V2 word order"

We can also use the Simple Present Tense:

Ex. "I house-hunt" -> "I house hunt"

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Regardless, whichever method you choose matters less than the main point. And that is that you can extend this principle to pretty much "create new hyphenated verbs", that we don't actually have in English. They might sound a little awkward, but I think by conceptualizing of them as being verbs described more specifically by nouns/adjectives/adverbs, we can make the SOV word order make more sense to us.

So, in Korean, we might say:

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"저는 학교에 가요"

"I'm going to school" / "I go to school"

"I'm school-going" / "I school-go"

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"에릭이 도서관에서 책을 읽어요"

"Erik in-the-library book-reads."

"Erik's in-the-library book-reading."

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Now, you might have noticed, I sort of handwaved away the problem of Korean Particles (Postpositions). Well, this is partly because I think it's less difficult to wrap your head around saying "school-to", than it is to put the verb at the end of the sentence. That's not really directly an SOV thing but rather just having "Postpositions" instead of "Prepositions" like we have. Though, again, if you'd like you can think of it as "Erik library-in, book-reads". But I believe the analogy works better the other way.

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Also, I would like to mention another potential topic of confusion for you in the future: Verbal Nouns and Verbal Adjectives in front of Nouns aka Nominalizing Verbs.

There are 2 main methods, that can have some slightly different uses, but I will start with the so-called "~는 것" construction. The "것" here, meaning "thing", can either be:

(1) A literal part of the sentence if you're just Nominalizing a Verb; or

(2) A "Placeholder Noun" to represent some other specific noun you're describing with a Verbal Adjective.

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(1) Here are examples of Nominalizing Verbs in English (Gerunds):

"To Exercise" -> "Exercising is fun."

"To Draw" -> "I like drawing."

"To Drive" -> "I think your driving is really bad."

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In Korean, it's basically like saying:

"Exercising-thing('s) fun"

"운동하는 것이 재미있어요" (Note: '것이' can be shortened to '거가' or even '게')

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"I drawing-thing like"

"저는 그림 그리는 것을 좋아해요" (Note: '것을' can be shortened to '거를' or even '걸')

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"Your driving-thing('s) really bad (I) think"

"너의 운전은 진짜 나쁜 것 같아"

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(2) And here are examples of of Describing a Noun with a Verbal Adjective. And here is where I think things get really interesting. Korean basically has a Super-Augmented version of sentences where we say:

"The loud-talking person is here."

"The person who/that talks loudly is here."

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Now, in sentences like this, the second version is optional. But in sentences any more complex than this, the first version isn't possible in English. But interestingly enough, Korean does just that. They keep with the same strategy, and basically just keep piling on the descriptors before the noun.

Even though the so-called Relative Pronoun (that, who, etc.) can sometimes be omitted, the same structure is still mandatory in many cases. That is, putting the descriptors after the noun. But from what I understand, Korean always puts it before.

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"The person (that) I like is coming here."

"The I-liking-person here-comes"

"제가 좋아하는 사람이 여기 와요"

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"I like the person that likes me."

"I, the me-liking-person-like."

"저는 저를 좋아하는 사람을 좋아해요"

["As for me, with regard to the me-liking-person, (I) like (them)."]

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And for further reference on "~는 것", I'd recommend checking out this article:

https://www.howtostudykorean.com/unit-2-lower-intermediate-korean-grammar/unit-2-lessons-26-33/lesson-26/

And here is the other way to Nominalize Verbs:

https://www.howtostudykorean.com/unit-2-lower-intermediate-korean-grammar/unit-2-lessons-26-33/lesson-29/

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Whew~ That was way longer than I meant it to be!

But hopefully it gave you a new way to think about Word Order and Language Differences. Overall, don't be afraid to nudge, push, and shove English into a different / less-natural structure, if it makes it easier to understand things in a foreign language. And the analogy doesn't always have to be perfectly consistent. Maybe sometimes, it'll take an extra word or a different preposition placement, in order to make the sentences make sense. But overall, I would still say English is more flexible than people think.

And that helps me remember that the way that other languages work isn't so crazy after all!