Hello, I've just started getting serious about learning Russian, and I'm doing well. However, I have run across some mixed explanations for the pronunciation of the letter "ye"(е). Some sites say it's only ever pronounced <ye>. Others say it's sometimes <ye>, sometimes <ee> like the letter "и". A few sites even say it's pronounced <eh>, like "э". They say it's based on whether or not the syllable is stressed, after a vowel, or at the beginning of a word. I've read that this is actually a complicated question. Could anyone please give me a complete set of rules as to how it's pronounced? I've noticed that always pronouncing it as <ye> makes words quite a bit harder to say, so I'm worried that I've been making things harder for myself than they need to be.