I took a Russian college class a couple of years ago. My instructor was a Moscovite native. She told our class there was no word for fun or for privacy. She told us the closest word to 'fun' had to do with enjoying sports; not like Americans mean to just be enjoying some random thing. At that time she had been in America 12 years; maybe they have come up with a word that she didn't know about.
I wasn't the original poster about the guns and vodka. I knew about the beer as she talked about that. A previous poster said 'no sex'. My instructor also talked about that. She said many Russian women don't like Russian men as many are lazy, drunkard Mama's boys and the women don't like that.
bump the last post here. You should get a kick out of it.
She told us the closest word to 'fun' had to do with enjoying sports; not like Americans mean to just be enjoying some random thing. At that time she had been in America 12 years; maybe they have come up with a word that she didn't know about. ==]
Just tell her that the word for fun is in sence of enjoy ramdom thing is "razvlechenie".
For "privacy" word is "chastnoe" or "individualnoe". Latter is borrowing from english - individual.