I am curious whether it's just my brain that doesn't work right

[dr4b]

You're describing your travel experience to someone... which of these sentences would you SAY? As in, speaking, not as in writing an email/etc -- you're at the office or somewhere talking to somebody. Assume that you actually have the experience of travelling to France and Spain at some point in your life, and someone's asking you about what countries you have the experience of travelling to or plan to travel to.

(oh, and assume appropriate abbreviation, ie, "I've" instead of "I have", if that helps.)

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And a better question: does it change if you are writing a report or article rather than just speaking?

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[drj36.livejournal.com]

I feel like visit is a word often used to describe another person's actions but not typically used to describe one's own actions. It's not that it's necessarily improper to use visit in reference to your own actions, just that people rarely do it in my experience. People will say "I have relatives visiting this weekend" but are more likely to say "I am going to see relatives this weekend". I could go further into depth but from there it's psychology.