بعد العمل أعود إلى البيت وأقرأ صحيفة.

بعد means after. In this kind of expression, Arabic puts بعد first and then the noun:

• بعد العمل = after work
• literally: after the work/work

Grammatically, بعد is followed by a noun in a genitive relationship, so in fully vowelled Arabic you would write:

• بَعْدَ العَمَلِ

So the final vowel on العمل is -i in full formal pronunciation.

Because the verbs already show the subject.

• أعود = I return
• أقرأ = I read

The initial أَ- on these present-tense verbs marks first person singular. So Arabic does not need أنا here.

You could say أنا أعود إلى البيت... if you want emphasis, but normally it is unnecessary.

In Arabic, the present/imperfect tense is often used for:

• present actions
• repeated habits
• routines

So this sentence naturally sounds like a routine:

• After work, I go back home and read a newspaper.

Even though English sometimes uses the simple present for habits, Arabic uses the imperfect here in the same general way.

إلى means to.

With أعود in Modern Standard Arabic, the destination is commonly introduced by إلى:

• أعود إلى البيت = I return to the house/home

So Arabic does not normally say this in MSA without إلى.

البيت is definite: the house / the home.

In this sentence, it refers to a specific place: the speaker’s home. Arabic often uses the definite form where English uses home without the.

So:

• إلى البيت often means home
• literally it is to the house

This is very natural Arabic.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Here, البيت is best understood as home. Arabic often uses البيت where English would prefer home rather than house.

A similar alternative is:

• المنزل = home / house / residence

So إلى البيت and إلى المنزل can both work, though البيت is very common and natural.

Yes. صحيفة is indefinite, and in fully vowelled MSA it would normally be written:

• صَحِيفَةً

That final -an sound marks it as an indefinite direct object.

So the fully vowelled phrase is:

• وأقرأُ صحيفةً = and I read a newspaper

In normal everyday Arabic writing, short vowels and tanwīn are usually omitted, so you often just see صحيفة.

In fully vocalized Modern Standard Arabic, the sentence would be:

بَعْدَ العَمَلِ أَعُودُ إِلَى البَيْتِ وَأَقْرَأُ صَحِيفَةً

The endings are:

• بعدَ: accusative/adverbial form
• العملِ: genitive after بعد
• أعودُ: nominative verb ending in full formal Arabic
• إلى البيتِ: البيتِ is genitive after إلى
• أقرأُ: nominative verb ending
• صحيفةً: accusative because it is the direct object

In ordinary printed Arabic, these endings are usually not written.

Because و meaning and is written as a prefix in Arabic. It attaches directly to the following word:

• وأقرأ = and I read

This is normal Arabic spelling. Several short particles behave like this and attach to the next word.

Both can refer to a newspaper, but there is a nuance:

• جريدة is often the most common everyday word for newspaper
• صحيفة can also mean newspaper, but it can have a slightly broader or more formal range, including paper, journal, or publication depending on context

So in this sentence, صحيفة is perfectly correct, but جريدة is also a very common word a learner will see.

Yes. Arabic word order is flexible.

These are both natural:

• بعد العمل أعود إلى البيت وأقرأ صحيفة
• أعود إلى البيت بعد العمل وأقرأ صحيفة

Starting with بعد العمل gives the time expression a little more prominence, like setting the scene first:

• After work, I return home and read a newspaper.

So the original version is very natural, but other orders are possible too.

A careful pronunciation would be approximately:

baʿda al-ʿamali aʿūdu ilā al-bayti wa-aqraʾu ṣaḥīfatan

A few sounds that may stand out to an English speaker:

• ع in بعد and أعود is a deep throat sound, often written ʿ
• ح in صحيفة is a strong breathy h
• ص in صحيفة is an emphatic s
• the final ء in أقرأ is a glottal stop

If you ignore full case endings in normal speech, many learners will hear something closer to:

baʿd al-ʿamal aʿūd ilā al-bayt wa-aqra ṣaḥīfa

But the fully vocalized formal version is the one shown above.