الجامعة بعيدة شوي، بس محطة الباص قريبة من الشغل.

Because this is a present-tense nominal sentence. In Levantine Arabic, you usually do not say a verb for is / am / are in the present.

So:

• الجامعة بعيدة شوي = The university is a little far
• محطة الباص قريبة من الشغل = The bus stop is close to work

If you wanted the past, you would use something like كانت:

• الجامعة كانت بعيدة = The university was far

Because they agree with feminine nouns.

Both الجامعة and محطة are feminine, so the predicate/adjective also appears in the feminine form:

• masculine: بعيد / قريب
• feminine: بعيدة / قريبة

So if you changed the noun to a masculine one, you would say:

• البيت بعيد
• المكتب قريب

شوي means a little, a bit, or slightly in Levantine.

So:

• بعيدة شوي = a little far
• غالي شوي = a little expensive
• تعبان شوي = a little tired

It is a very common colloquial word. You may also hear شوية, which is closely related.

In Levantine, words like شوي often come after the adjective they modify.

So بعيدة شوي is a very natural way to say:

• a little far
• literally: far a little

This word order is common in spoken Arabic, even though English usually puts a little before the adjective.

Here, بس means but.

So the sentence structure is:

• الجامعة بعيدة شوي = The university is a little far
• بس = but
• محطة الباص قريبة من الشغل = the bus stop is close to work

In other contexts, بس can also mean only / just, so the meaning depends on the sentence.

Because Arabic can leave the reference point understood from context.

So الجامعة بعيدة شوي can simply mean:

• The university is a little far
• The university is a bit far away

If you want to say far from a specific place, you normally add that:

• الجامعة بعيدة عن البيت = The university is far from the house
• بعيدة عني = far from me

So in your sentence, the speaker does not need to say from where.

Because قريب / قريبة commonly takes the preposition من to mean close to.

So:

• قريبة من الشغل = close to work
• قريب من البيت = close to the house

This is just the normal pattern:

• قريب من ... = close to ...

By contrast, بعيد often uses عن when the comparison point is stated:

• بعيد عن البيت = far from the house

Because this is an idafa (construct phrase), the Arabic way of saying something like the bus stop or the station of the bus.

In an idafa:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the second noun shows whether the whole phrase is definite

So:

• محطة باص = a bus stop
• محطة الباص = the bus stop

Even though محطة does not have ال, the whole phrase is definite because الباص is definite.

Because the ة at the end of محطة can be pronounced like t when the word is followed by another noun in an idafa.

So in careful or natural connected speech, you may hear something like:

• maḥaṭṭit il-bāṣ
• or maḥaṭṭet il-bāṣ

But when the word stands alone, it is more like:

• maḥaṭṭa
• or maḥaṭṭe

This is very normal in Arabic and happens with many words ending in ة.

It is a very common borrowed word in spoken Arabic, especially in Levantine. It comes from bus and is widely used in everyday conversation.

So:

• باص = very common in speech
• حافلة = more formal / more standard

A Levantine speaker will very naturally say:

• محطة الباص

even though حافلة is the more formal Standard Arabic word.

Because الشغل is the everyday colloquial word in Levantine for work, job, or sometimes workplace.

So:

• الشغل = natural spoken Levantine
• العمل = more formal / more Standard Arabic

In this sentence, من الشغل most naturally means something like:

• close to work
• close to the workplace

So it sounds very natural in conversation.