It's not the same vowel: Pinyin e ranges anywhere from [ɛ] to [ɤ] with several stops in-between.
(I'm wagering that, being a Southerner, she might have [u] in fen; in Beijing Mandarin, all instances of /fun/ and /fuŋ/ have become /fən/ and /fəŋ/, respectively.)
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Date: 2008-06-25 05:17 pm (UTC)(I'm wagering that, being a Southerner, she might have [u] in fen; in Beijing Mandarin, all instances of /fun/ and /fuŋ/ have become /fən/ and /fəŋ/, respectively.)