Proving that the set of all finite subsets of a countable set is coutable

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I am trying to prove the following proposition:

Proposition: Let $S$ be a countable set. Then the set of all finite subsets of $S$ is also countable.


My approach:

If $S$ is countable that means that $S$ is finite or that $S \sim\mathbb{N}$.

If $S$ is finite then the number of finite subsets of $S$ is also finite, so in this case it's easy to show that this is countable as well.

In the case that $S$ is countably infinite:

Let $A_k=\{A \subset S:\text{card} (A)=k\}$. $A_k$ is countable because it is the union of various countable sets $A \subset S$

The set of all finite subsets of $S$ will be equal to $\bigcup \limits_{i=1}^\infty A_i$. Because every $A_i$ is countable, then this union is also countable.

My question is: Can I do this union? Because $A_\infty$ means the set is the set of all infinite subsets of $S$, and I'm making an union from $i=1$ to $\infty$. So is this proof right?

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There is no problem with that union. However, it is wrong to assert that $A_k$ is countable “because it is the union of various countable sets”. An arbitray union of countable sets doesn't have to be countable. You have to justify that you have a countable union of countable sets here.