In this part of this funny video: <https://youtu.be/eXpyr0aVkHM?t=1159>

The girl says "mother talk dog cheese" in English, trying to translate "My
mother told me that it was cheese for the dog", and then the teacher corrects
her in a funny manner by pretending to be a caveman or similar who says:
"Mother talk doggu cheese".

Only he says the first two words ("mother" and "talk") in Japanese, and
apparently says the "dog cheese" as "doggu cheese", which doesn't look like
Japanese to me. It sound like English spoken by a Japanese person, or like a
joke. But what confuses me is that he uses "real" Japanese (as far as I can
tell, being as far from an expert in Japanese as one gets) in the first part
of the sentence.

My question is: was this intentionally mixing English in Japanese for comedic
effect, or is "doggu" really "dog" in Japanese, and "cheese" or "cheesu"
acceptable to mean "cheese"?
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Is "doggu cheese" really Japanese, or slang in Japanese?
Cheese was introduced to Japan from outisde relatively recently, and so there
is no native Japanese word for it. The English word was borrowed, as closely
as Japanese can phonetically manage: チーズ _chiizu_.

Dogs, however, have been in Japan for centuries, and thus there's a Japanese
word for them with no connection to the English word, 犬 _inu_. This character
is also read _ken_ in some words, a borrowing from the mediaeval Chinese
reading, much like how we have both 'dog' and 'canine'.

However, if there were such a thing as 'dog cheese' that were a specific type
of cheese, it would probably enter Japanese as 'doggu chiizu' rather than 'inu
no chiizu' or anything. The man in the video kept it as 'dog cheese' to get
across exactly what she'd just said to her - you probably wouldn't think 'dog
cheese' meant 'cheese for the dog', would you?
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