[General] How was your vacation? Have you visited any places?

[Silverobama]

My student Nina was back from her vacation. (We had five days off) and I asked her the following question when seeing her today:

How was your vacation? Have you visited any places?

Are my questions natural? (Nina likes traveling and she might travel around China during these five days off)

 

[Rover_KE]

I'd say 'Did you go anywhere interesting?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

My student Nina was back from her vacation[STRIKE].[/STRIKE] (we had five days off) and I asked her the following question when I saw her today:

If you start a sentence with a parenthesis, you have to end it with a parenthesis.

How was your vacation? Did you go anywhere/Did you go away?

Those are natural ways to ask whether she traveled.

Are my questions natural? (Nina likes traveling, and she might have traveled around China during those five days off.)

There!

 

[Silverobama]

I'd say 'Did you go anywhere interesting?

Much appreciated, Rover. I think I do need the first sentence. Did you mean I need to use only your suggestion or the following two?

How was your vacation? Did you go anywhere interesting?

 

[GoesStation]

"Have you visited any places" was entirely wrong. You need the simple past and you have to say what kind of places you're asking about.

 

[emsr2d2]

The use of the word "vacation" ("holiday" in BrE) would strongly suggest to me that the person went somewhere, so "Did you go anywhere?" (the grammatical form of "Have you visited any places?" would be redundant.
If I already knew someone had been away (ie out of their home area), I'd just say "How was your holiday?"
If I knew they had had some time off work but I didn't know what they'd done, I'd say "How was your time off? Did you go anywhere?"

 

[Tarheel]

I wouldn't assume they went somewhere, so asking about that would be appropriate.

Here we often use the word "vacation" to mean an extended time off. (There's summer vacation and Christmas vacation to name two.)

So "How was your vacation? Did you go anywhere?" would work fine.