How to make computer (Windows) keyboard act more like iphone keyboard?

Academicy type person here - have to frequently type words or names from other languages with different lettering (or accent marks), and was wondering if there are any programs out there to get the computer keyboard to act more like the iphone - where instead of holding down repeats the letter, options pop up for different lettering.

Oh good Heavens really are you really serious okay not to phooey on you too much but here's how you do it you go on eBay and you get the Apple keyboard for Windows and you plug it in and bingo now you have an Apple keyboard that does Apple motions on your Windows computer

You can configure Windows with different languages and different keyboard layouts. You should find that the on-screen keyboards adapt to the current settings you have configured.

Visit http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-get-easy-access-to-symbols-emojis-and-other-special-characters/ to find out how to bring up a 'touch keyboard' in Win 10. This may work for other versions, but if not then you need to use the CTRL key and type a 4 digit code for the required character.