I think that knowing only one of these three secrets is helpful to improve my language learning process, the secret about linking the words. First, as Judy Thompson said English is a very exclusive language, that is why some groups have certain words constantly repeated and when you are talking it is better if the words of the phrase are linked it together because it helps you to recognize and understand faster what other people is saying. Second, English is a stress-based language and is easy for me to recognize it but hard when I am speaking. Linking words is a useful tool to say correctly the stressed words on a phrase without thinking if I am doing it right or wrong. Third, as a Spanish native speaker, collocations are not easy at all, here one word could be used for many things, in English is necessary to differentiate when you use have/do/make or pay/save/keep, when you link the word you said the verb first and then the subject and probably other people could is able to understand what I am trying to say. In conclusion linking the words could hide some failures and may improve them with the time.