Quote Originally Posted by whipback
is it correct of me to say Slavic languages are closer to Latin in grammar than the Romance languages are??
Of course not.
Latin is very close to Italian, French, Spanish, and other Roman languages.

I've heard Spanish has very difficult verb conjugations that tell who is speaking and who they are speaking to, and as far as I know Latin does not have this.
You are wrong. Latin verb conjugations and tense system is very very tricky.

Latin doesn't even have any articles, just like Slavic languages. Latin shows its cases, gender, number, etc. with the endings of its nouns, just like Slavic languages. As a result, Latin has practically free word order, just like Slavic languages.
Yes, that's what makes Latin somehow close to Russian.