Restaurant reservations Part 3: Confirming the reservation details, including date, time, and number of guests.

🇹🇼 [你好] is standard and polite, but in Taiwan staff often start reservation calls more naturally with [您好] or jump straight into [請問]. You can still use [你好] safely as a learner.

💬 In [我想], [想] often softens what you want, so it comes out more like "I'd like" than a blunt "I want." You can reuse it with other actions: [我想預訂] or [我想確認].

💬 [我想] is a useful polite starter before what you want to do: [我想預訂] or [我想改時間]. It sounds softer than just saying the action by itself.

💬 In [預訂], [預] carries the idea of "in advance." You'll see it in other booking-related words too, like [預約] for making an appointment or reservation.

💬 In [預訂], [訂] is the part about booking or ordering. You'll also see it in words like [訂位] for reserving a table.

💬 In Taiwan, [預訂] is understandable, but for restaurant reservations people more often say [訂位]. [預訂] is a broader "book in advance," while [訂位] is specifically reserving seats or a table.

🇹🇼 For a restaurant in Taiwan, saying [我想訂位] will sound more local than [我想預訂]. Staff will immediately understand both, but [訂位] is the usual choice.