Yes, of course Lithuanian is much closer to Russian than English And grammar is a bit similar because we also conjugate verbs and nouns are declinable. By the way, in Lithuanian language (as in Russian language) there are not so manny tenses as in English language. But, anyway, Lithuanians don't write in Cyrillic alphabet like some people, who don't have enough knowledge about Lithuania, think talking about problems with pronunciation, my teacher used to say that I pronunciate ы letter too soft