I wonder if he would take to the real gibberish, someone taught it to me a long time ago and I found it very helpful when wanting to talk to someone in private when the room was full of people.
the rules of gibberish are simple to learn and with pratice a gifted person should be speaking an entire new language within weeks.
it's all about manipulating the sounds of the word rather saying it how it "looks" if written down.
cat = at-ce pronounced at-key the sounds of the original word are preserved but the letters before the first vowel in the word are put to the end of the word and a vowel is placed behind it
string = ing-stre
it makes it fun when you come to worlds like refridgerator where you can break it up into the sylables (sp)
(e-re idge-fre ator-re)
the joy of this language is that most people simply can't understand it when it's spoken fluently.

Just a thought anyways,,, worked well for me.