There are language exchanges out there, including real life ones in pubs etc once a month or once a week (eg if you're close enough to London), try googling. There are also message boards and mailing lists in French (not necessarily aimed at language learners) and the same goes for Spanish (just search yahoogroups etc). These will give you quite a steep learning curve, but they'll at least get you back in the habit of thinking in the target language instead of translating from English.
BTW if you don't want to switch keyboard settings, www.typeit.org has sets of the accented letters etc for you to copy and paste (even into plain text).
I must say it's not as difficult as they say as long as you use menmonic technics to learn characters
) and I go to the gym regularly, so don't need to try too hard on the basic skills or make much effort with fitness, just need to know the rules a bit better and spend a little bit of time learning to shoot properly. Let's see how it works out anyway 
