@Marcus; The book explains that "e" is pronounced as in "yet", which is why they transliterate the sound as "ye". It seems to work for every other word I've learnt so far - Нет = Nyet, etc?

Perhaps to ask the question a different way; in Департамент, are both the e's pronounced the same way, and if not, why not?

@Marcus again - sorry, I'm not nearly advanced enough to understand your second reply!

Thanks,
Lindsay