RE: You don’t need to really know the language to follow the Latin Mass; you can just follow along in the missal; Latin is the left column, English is the right.
Well, this woman said:
“I can go to Mass in China or Italy, or America or Japan, and anywhere else in the World, and, if it’s in Latin, I can understand and join in, because that’s how I was raised.”
Do the missals in these countries also include English in their columns and other languages? If not, then she’s got to be multilingual to be able to follow it.
You own the missal, you can take it wherever you want to, and the Latin part of the mass will be the same. (The sermon won’t be in Latin, but that’s life. If it’s a Low Mass, there may be hymns sung that aren’t in Latin either.)
My parents, back in the day, had their own missals, which they brought with them to Mass. If you bring your own missal when you travel, no problem. I think soldiers used to bring them along when they deployed, like in WWII.