hey um I probably sound really ignorant and stuff but what exactly are/is kanji? sorrysorry
yooo don't apologise omg kanji are just part of the japanese writing system that are adopted from chinese characters (hanzi)!! japanese uses three different writing systems but the first 2 (hiragana + katakana) only have like 46 basic characters each because they're phonetic, whereas there is pretty much no limit to kanji so you've just gotta keep expanding your vocabulary
hence why i was meant to be memorising and revising off of the sheet of kanji my teacher gave us before summer