I have been where you were. I started Tridentine Mass attendance almost two years ago. I was distracted since I was not watching the wonderful ceremony and was always looking down at the book. So I went home, opened the missal and read it for an hour or two trying to determine the stages so I could follow the Mass without knowing Latin and not reading either.
The Tridentine Mass has a plan of two parts of the Mass which contains 3 or 4 stages each. The plan is located in the missal. Read the missal translation and try to understand the overall concept of each stage and what is occuring. If you understand it intellectually before you walk into Church it will provide you great value. You can go well beyond the limitations of language and not be frustrated.
I started learning higher level concepts. Eventually I will just memorize the missal and be able to understand Latin.
Hope this helps.
I knew what was happening at each stage of the Mass and what the priest was doing, e.g. the Introit, the readings, the offertory, the Canon, etc. But not knowing the Latin and not being able to respond was still frustrating.
I think there is something to be said for the vernacular. If some of the prayers of the Mass were in Latin and some in the vernacular, that would best and it would also comply with what Vatican II ordered.