Would recommend professor Google. Usually mh3u and your specific term (ie great sword or how to farm air weed) will give you good answers or videos. I was in the same position and did a ton of research before missions early on. New monsters should get you to search up on their weaknesses, blights, hit boxes. Realizing their head is a weak point can be the difference from finishing in 20 minutes versus having time run out. Not understanding poison or slime blight can be the difference between 3 carts or not bringing the right gear. Sucks when you only bring cool drinks on a night sandy plains mission. Those are the types of things that you'll miss early on and it will frustrate you. But keep at it and the game will slowly train you and hook the shit out of you. And you will be so grateful. 230 hours so far on one weapon type as my first try at monster hunter and will probably buy the next three day one, no questions asked.
Put another way, Mario and Zelda are my top two game series of all time (/kanye) but the all go on hold until I get to hr 50. So, maybe January. Two (3? WW?) of the best games of the year just are getting ignored by me because of this crack. Nothing like it.