Advice for learning german plurals

Hi

I’m a beginner learning German through evening classes and am using memrise to help practice my vocab between classes.

My teacher just got to plurals and we were told to go back through and learn the plurals for all vocab covered to date and to learn the plural with every new word which seems sensible enough.

The problem I’m having is that, since introducing the plurals, I’m making a lot more mistakes on my other vocab when it comes to umlauts, endings, articles. Even on words I was very confident with before.

Does anyone have any advice for keeping the plural form separate in my mind so I can try and remember them both. Do you think I’m best to get really secure with the base word then add the plural or do you think I should learn them together one at a time?

THanks

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