Quote Originally Posted by whipback
you should explain how the romance languages are closer to Latin than the Slavic languages.
In grammar (and vocabulary; well, that's not your question, but anyway). First of all, in verbs, their conjugation and tense system. I think Latin in this aspect is even harder because it has special forms for the passive voice (and it's much more complicated than in modern Italian). Then again, I'm not expert in Spanish, but as far as I know, the verb conjugation and tense system in modern Italian, French, and Spanish are quite close, if not almost identical.

way of conjugating as Spanish to show who is speaking and who is being spoken to
Could you please provide an example of this? Because I didn't understand what it is about.