From Austria you are in few hours in the middle of this country, and concomitantly in direct proximity of the geographical center of the European continent. It is centuries old European culture country.
The language is surely somewhat unusual, because Slavic languages are different than the Romanic or Germanic idioms, to which we have gotten accustomed in the course of long time in Western Europe. But with German and English and also Russian you continue to come always well, if you do not know the national language there.