How can I turn on the character accent menu when typing?

I recently purchased a new Macbook Air. On my old Macbook pro, I could hold down a key, and the accented character menu would pop up. I'm currently taking a class which requires me to type long papers in other languages, and this was incredibly convenient. On my Macbook Air, I can't seem to get this function to work. I've tried inputting the command into the Terminal app that would enable this function, and it only works for once after inputting the command and then goes back to key repeating. I don't want to turn off the key repeat function, I just want to enable the accented characters menu. Please help me out!

Try going to system preferences/keyboard/input sources and make sure you have another keyboard like French or Spanish on the list in addition to US, and then restart.
If need be you can always make the same characters using option keyboard shortcuts, a chart is at
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codemac.html

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