Are you really advising a newbie to buy Litecoins? Stop your lame attempt to make him inflate this bubble even more.
The FIRST crypto-currency a newbie should be is Bitcoin. Period.

After hours of reading about their differences, their strengths, theirs weaknesses, their devs, their future development, then he can wisely chose whether he wants to risk money in one or more Bitcoin clones
Actually he should even buy Bitcoins only after all this reading