The Guadalajara Reporter called Enjoy México in Spanish a "quirky, unusual and immensely practical little book that could accomplish the impossible: make neophyte expate gringos communicate in Spanish."

Enjoy México in Spanish grew out of David Bodwell's frustration with exiswting phrasebooks, which are mostly written for the British traveler, or meant to approximate a dialect -- and vocabulary -- very different from that used in Mexico.  Unlike traditional phrasebooks, Enjoy México in Spanish neither "makes do" with approximations of Mexican Spanish sounds, not relies on a complicated scheme of phoenetic symbors.  Nor does it depend on memorizing one phrase that may or may not be applicable in any given situation.  Instead, people usingEnjoy México in Spanishlearn to build basic sentences that -- properly pronounced -- are understandable and unlikely to confuse a waiter... a travel agent... or the police.