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Not really, since I never get to actually use those skills other than watching media from Japan (or I guess Spain/Mexico since I also know Spanish).
I felt this. Don't really remember the last time I spoke Mandarin, probably like more than a decade ago when I last went to 2nd grade in mainland China. Even Chinatown is still mostly Cantonese.
Another personal problem with my Japanese is that I only have been learning how to read and listen, not to speak or write it. But I mean, I see a lot of Japanese dudes, like Shigiru Miyamoto, that clearly understand English spoken to them, but still respond in Japanese (they have interpreters, but they only interpret the Japanese to English for the benefit of the English speakers). So I don't think it would be too rude of me to do the same if by some miracle I ever did get to go to Japan.
When I was in germany a few years ago I'm sure I came off as a monolingual person - none of the people tried to speak spanish to me though to they have no idea I can - and I didn't get any much needed practice.