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# How to pronounce "poor quality" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/pʌːrkwælɪtɪ/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **poor·qu·a·li·ty**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "poor quality" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "through e-commerce the offline retail experience is quite bad quite poor in china offline stores have poor quality very little variety targetability was very poor prices were very high enter e-commerce alibaba jd tencent these large companies for a user sitting in a small town in china who is typically exposed to five retail stores with"
- **Watch at 1:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXo-J7ztIXc&t=90s)

### Example 2
> "At night time it's low. And your body, when it's sleeping, replenishes that testosterone. And so, if you're getting either less number of hours of sleep or poor quality sleep, meaning you're you know, you're not feeling very rested when you wake up, that's a sign of poor quality sleep. Both of those things can dramatically affect your testosterone. The other thing that you can do is exercise and specifically resistance exercise. So, doing high the the largest"
- **Watch at 33:15**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUoPA6oP6do&t=1995s)

### Example 3
> "to have returned back to a growing number of jobs that are just very very poor quality so I hope we don't return back to where we were Preet: and that we actually have some institutions in place that raise wages permanently for lower-income workers and it actually changes our unemployment"
- **Watch at 7:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbOVBmzflEc&t=423s)

### Example 4
*Accent: UK*
> "poor quality they still contained chromaglass the majority of the experiments failed but there were a few that actually gave"
- **Watch at 14:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGi8gWjPkeo&t=893s)

### Example 5
*Accent: AUS*
> "poor quality in strata buildings and that really came out of the fact that"
- **Watch at 7:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zm0pNTNz4I&t=424s)

### Example 6
> "rather poor quality uh they don't really see a lot of new ideas now I think that part of that is"
- **Watch at 14:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpvAYdxVVqc&t=879s)

### Example 7
> "And looking at the richness of what each of us bring to the table as opposed to assuming there’s a deficit coming from one end. The poor housing, the poor quality schools, the infrastructure, the lack of libraries and institutions in communities and hospitals and high unemployment. We’re not talking about how those things are barriers in and of themselves to people escaping poverty."
- **Watch at 3:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtca2-T4CBo&t=225s)

### Example 8
> "But that research is done on good quality childcare. Because poor quality childcare doesn't let researchers in. So we know that a lot of the care is not good quality and we know that this is not a good thing that our children are being"
- **Watch at 3:41**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIze2k6goV0&t=221s)

### Example 9
> "alone buys around 200 tons of Nicaraguan Fair Trade coffee each year at first people drank coffee from Nicaragua out of solidarity but it was of poor quality that was during the Civil War when we had to harvest our crop between firefights and bombardments in the time we've learned that fair trade means not just a fair price but also high quality people here are proud of their"
- **Watch at 5:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCeTtmFJ30&t=348s)

### Example 10
*Accent: US*
> "They study why we sleep, what occurs during sleep, such as dreams and why we dream, learning during sleep, as well as the consequences of getting insufficient or poor quality sleep on waking states. Dr. Walker is also the author of the international best selling book "Why We Sleep"."
- **Watch at 0:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbQFSMayJxk&t=37s)


## How to Pronounce "poor quality"

- **Syllables**: poor · qu · a · li · ty
- **IPA**: `/pʌːrkwælɪtɪ/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Pronunciations

[poor](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/poor), [quality](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/quality)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “poor quality”?
“poor quality” is pronounced /pʌːrkwælɪtɪ/ (poor · qu · a · li · ty). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “poor quality”?
“poor quality” has 5 syllables: poor · qu · a · li · ty.

### How can I hear “poor quality” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “poor quality” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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